Gérard Depardieu to appear in criminal court over sexual assault allegations
Two women say actor assaulted them, one on a film set in 2021 and the other on another shoot in 2014
Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults of two women on the set of a film in 2021, prosecutors have announced.
Depardieu, 75, who previously has denied any wrongdoing, was questioned for several hours on Monday by officers at a police station in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office later said in a statement that the actor has been “summoned to appear before the criminal court”.
A trial will start in October “for sexual assaults likely to have been committed in September 2021” against “two victims, on the set of the film Les Volets Verts [The Green Shutters]”, the statement said.