Indicted in December 2020 for rape and sexual assault but left free without judicial review, actor Gérard Depardieu intends to get rid once and for all of this story which has actually been pursuing him since 2018. This Thursday, February 3, 2022, the 73-year-old actor took legal action in turn.
Indeed, the actor who we recently saw at the cinema in the excellent Lost Illusions – record of César nominations – and who is expected in comedy Retirement home challenges before the Paris Court of Appeal his indictment, who has been accused of rape by actress Charlotte Arnould since August 2018, a judicial source told AFP. He seized the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal on this request for the nullity of his indictment concerning facts that he “totally disputes“. The hearing was scheduled for 1:00 p.m. and the decision was to be reserved.
Charlotte Arnould had denounced to the gendarmerie of Lambesc (Bouches-du-Rhône) at the end of August 2018 to have been raped a few days earlier twice at the star’s Parisian home, a mansion in the chic 6th arrondissement. A legal proceedings had been opened in Aix-en-Provence then transferred to Paris. A confrontation between Gérard Depardieu and the young actress had taken place in the premises of the Parisian judicial police. Corn, in June 2019, the public prosecutor had however closed the complaint without further action.
The supposed victim had held firm and had relaunched the judicial machine in mid-August 2020, obtaining the resumption of the investigation via a complaint with civil action, a remedy that allows the almost automatic appointment of a judge to relaunch the investigations. A Parisian investigating judge indicted Gérard Depardieu on December 16, 2020 for rape and sexual assault.
Since his indictment, revealed by AFP, Gérard Depardieu has been heard on the merits by the investigating judge, according to sources familiar with the matter.
He remains presumed innocent of the charges, until the final judgment of this case.