Gérard Depardieu to face trial over rape and sexual assault allegations

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault in 2018.

His accuser, actor Charlotte Arnould, said she was relieved the case was going to court, seven years after she filed a complaint.

Depardieu, 76, has denied the charges, insisting his relationship with Arnould was consensual.

He was convicted in May of sexually assaulting two members of a film production crew four years ago - and placed on a list of sex offenders, but not jailed. He had denied their allegations.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v2w8m88no

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From accusations of assault and rape by digital penetration (ie what Trump did - that's why he's a rapist) in 2018.

[SpankMe]

1. Something about life and art imitating each other

Depardieu starred in a movie called "Welcome to New York" in 2014, where he plays a French diplomat (or something like that) who is accused of raping a maid at his hotel and is arrested. The rape scene is quite direct. The movie was based on a true story of a French government official, last name Strauss-Kahn, who was alleged to have done the same thing a few years prior.

I remember the news story, because I think Strauss-Kahn returned to France while the investigation was playing out as the situation became complex due to France's extradition laws, diplomatic immunity, etc.

[Passages]

2. 7 years she had to wait.

Why is this man even free?

[FakeNoose]

3. In France they treat him like a major celebrity ... like Robert DeNiro maybe

... despite the fact that Depardieu is a disgusting pig who hasn't had a hit movie in 30 years.

[Passages]

4. Shameful.

[marble falls]

5. Didn't he move to Russia about ten years ago?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The full invasion of Ukraine in 2022 seems to have gone too far for him

so I suspect he doesn't live there now:

The Kremlin has hit back after French actor Gerard Depardieu accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "crazy, unacceptable excesses" in Ukraine.

Depardieu said the Russian people were not responsible for their president's behaviour.
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In 2015, Ukraine banned him from entering the country for five years after he supported Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Despite this, the actor denounced the war in Ukraine shortly after it began in February and called for negotiations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60954565

[marble falls]

8. T'anks!

[PatSeg]

7. I remember when he moved in protest to French taxes

Apparently he is quite an asshole in so many ways.

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. What a pig!

Look at him. Look at her! Consensual?