When Depardieu starts to talk to his trial due to sexual misconduct, his strong appearance crumbles

The statements were so absurd, she couldn’t even come up with them, says decor designer Amélie K. (54) in the court of the Paris Hof of Justice. Who says: « Come on, touch my fat parasol, I’m going to put it in your cunt! » According to K., a slender blonde woman with an affected accent, it was the French film star Gérard Depardieu (76). He would have spoken the words in 2021 while he clamped her between his legs and would have been accompanied by ‘a disturbed look’ and touches over her buttocks, belly and breasts. His bodyguard would have freed her.

This testified a very calm K. Tuesday on the second day of the first lawsuit on accusation of sexual misconduct by Depardieu. The case revolves around two charges of sexual violence during the filming of the film Les Volets Verts (2022). Depardieu is said to have assaulted K. in a Paris apartment where was filmed, and, outside the set, touched the buttocks and breasts of the 34-year-old director’s assistant Sarah (a pseudonym). Depardieu – recognizable from a distance by his vaulted nose, broad shoulders and big belly – denies debt. The actor, known from Les Voleuses (1974) and from his interpretation as Obelix, can be sentenced to five years in prison and 75,000 euros.

After a chaotic first day on which Depardieu’s lawyer did everything in vain to get the lawsuit suspended, Amélie K. and Depardieu spoke on Tuesday – Sarah follows later. Although the case had to be postponed earlier due to Depardieu’s health problems, the actor looks relatively healthy and carefree. He sometimes sticks to his bodyguard and is sitting on a special ergonomic stool, but laughs hard for the jokes of his lawyer, gives amical hands as a colleague from the film world who will argue as a witness for him and regularly smiles into the room.

When he starts talking, it crumbles strong appearance. He sometimes contradicts himself, confuses names, falls into irrelevant anecdotes or a shaking head « your Sais pass, your Sais pass« He denies being guilty of » sexual aggression, « but acknowledges (other than during the police interrogation) that he has taken K. at the hips. « Not to fall over, » he says on Tuesday morning. « To get closer so I didn’t have to talk hard, » he says in the afternoon.

‘A fragile woman’

He also recognizes that he apologized afterwards – but that would only have been before his « gross language ». In Depardieu’s version he had become angry with K. because she had made a work error. « It is normal that you sometimes flip, unfortunately it ended up this time (Amélie K.), a very fragile woman. » In the room, ge-oh sounds when he accuses his prosecutors of « hysteria »-a term that horrors feminists-and states that they « portray him like a large pig. »

Depardieu believes that he himself is the victim, because he has « been unable to work for three years » because of this and other accusations and has become the target of feminist movements – they were also in court on Monday. « The daughter of (movie star) Fanny Ardant was even spit in her face because her mother supports me! »

In recent years, Depardieu has been accused of criminal offenses by a whole zipper of women

The actor also knows that he can be vulgar. « I talk about sex, I often say ‘ass’. I deliberately do that, to relax. In Chateauroux (his birthplace ed.) It always goes that way. » That is why he prefers to work with men than to work with ‘young girls’. « I don’t feel so comfortable with this new society. I think my time is over. »

Other allegations

The question is whether Depardieu can maintain that he is ‘just’ his rude himself, someone who is not cut for a politically correct era but who has nothing else in the sense. Because the lawsuit does not stand on its own: in recent years, Depardieu has been accused of criminal offenses by a whole host of women. In 2018, in aftermath of the global #Metoo movement, the then 22-year-old actress Charlotte Arnould, the daughter of a family friend, reported two rapes (according to Depardieu, sex took place with mutual consent, the investigation is still ongoing).

This was followed by three more charges of sexual misconduct, one of which is rape and one time. Opposite news site Médiapart in April 2023 thirteen other women Witnessed out of the film world about the misconduct of Depardieu. Later that year came TV program Complément d’Verête With a documentary in which Depardieu exhausts itself. During a trip to North Korea in 2018, he tells a woman, among other things, that he weighs 124 kilos, « 126 kilos with erection. »

Actress Charlotte Arnould, who reported rape by Gérard Depardieu in 2018, will be embraced by actress Anouk Grinberg at the court in Paris on Monday.

Some well -known French are present at the business. Fanny Ardant will testify for her friend. Cheater Charlotte Arnould has been in court for two days – in silence and hand in hand with a friend, she follows the debates. Also actress Anouk Grinberg, who also in Les Volets Verts Played, was present on Monday, but was put out of the hall when she shouted « Oooh » because she was angry about « the carpet of lies » that Depardieus lawyer would have laid down. She said to the press: « Everyone knows: Depardieu is an aggressor, he has been doing this for fifty years. Women had to keep their mouths shut, otherwise they would lose their job. »

The lawsuit would last two days but would take much more time. So the Monstre Sacré From the French film world still some stage time.

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