Paris -The French cinema icon Gerrard Depardeu was convicted on Tuesday in 2021 for sexual harassment of two women on a film in Paris and sentenced to 18 months suspended. The 76 -year -old actor denied allegations that he forcefully grabbed a set designer and a supporting manufacturer on the set of “Les Wallet Warts” (“The Green Shutters”).
Depurdio was not in court for verdict or punishment on Tuesday, as he is currently doing a film in Portugal. His lawyer said that he would appeal for the decision.
A set designer, 34, and an auxiliary manufacturer, 54, said that the actor caught him and caught him while filming in Paris in August and September 2021.
Taking a stand in March for the first time, Depardyu told the court that he was nothing like a man described by two women.
“I don’t see why I will hit a woman, her buttocks, her breasts,” he said. “I am not a person who rubs himself against the people on the metro.”
The two women did not immediately report the alleged crimes, but Depardyu published an open letter in the Le Figaro newspaper in October 2023, stating: “Never, I never abused a woman,” set the designer went to the police. He reported Depardiu for alleged sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexual insults.
The test was opened in October, but it was Depardieu postponed due to unsuccessful healthHis lawyer told the court in March that Depardiu was diabetes and a quadruple-bypass had passed through heart surgery.
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Medical experts later considered him fit to participate in the test, but limited the hearing for six hours per day, with a provision for a 15 -minute stagnation if the need of departedu.
“Gerrard Depardyu is the person who is very independent, who can be extremely direct,” his lawyer Jeremy said, who dismissed the allegations as “lies”.
Dozens of protesters, most women, gathered outside the courthouse in March, stating what they called spatial sexualism and impotence for sexual criminals in French cinema and French society. He said that he was happy that the actor was finally in court to respond to the allegations, and waved the placard with messages: “The victim, we consider you; rapist, we see you”; “Touch a touch, answer you all.”
A huge French cinema has been more infamous than the famous in recent years. He has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen women in the film industry. Several claims came out after the alleged incidents, however, the actor cannot be tried for him under the French law.
In a high-profile step, the actor left his original France for a few years ago, moved to Belgium, criticized the French tax growth.
Depardieu Obocratic President Vladimir Putin has been open about his praise for Russia, who gave Russian citizenship on him in 2013.
Later he also became a citizen of Dubai.
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