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Gérard Depardieu affair: a bailiff authenticates the actor’s comments
An extract from the program “Complément d’investigation”, broadcast on December 7 and in which Gérard Depardieu appears to make comments of a sexual nature about a little girl, was authenticated by a bailiff. The family, then Emmanuel Macron, had suggested that the sequence could have been modified during editing. – (France 3)
An extract from the program “Complément d’investigation”, broadcast on December 7 and in which Gérard Depardieu appears to make comments of a sexual nature about a little girl, was authenticated by a bailiff. The family, then Emmanuel Macron, had suggested that the sequence could have been modified during editing.
Gérard’s images Depardieu In “Additional investigation” fueled the controversy. France Télévisions has mandated a bailiff to provide proof of its authenticity. Different camera angles allowed him to attest that it was when the young girl passed by on her pony that the actor made obscene remarks. The actor’s family had mentioned a staging. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had expressed doubts.
Report produced “with the greatest respect for ethical rules”
“The Complementary investigation report on Gérard Depardieu was carried out with the greatest respect for ethical rules. There is no doubt and no ambiguity about the fact that it is indeed the young girl in the image who is targeted by Gérard’s words. Depardieu“, indicates France Télévisions. The bailiff had at his disposal the images of the filming in Korea used in the extract, from two cameras positioned in the stud farm, as well as a camcorder.
“Usually, we do not show our rushes to anyone, not even to the courts because this is a matter of source secrecy. But in this context of an avalanche of fake news of which the show is the victim, we have decided to exceptionally show them to a bailiff to certify the rigor of our work”explains Tristan Waleckx, the presenter of the show.
