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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.

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