Gérard Depardieu placed in police custody to be heard in two investigations into sexual assault during filming in 2014 and 2021

Women accuse him of touching on the sets of two films: “The Magician and the Siamese” and “The Green Shutters”.

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Actor Gérard Depardieu, June 6, 2013 during a press conference for the first Russian film festival, in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes).  (VALERY HACHE / AFP)

Gérard Depardieu was placed in police custody to be heard in cases relating to sexual assault, France Télévisions learned from a police source on Monday April 29, confirming information from BFMTV. The actor must be heard for two cases of sexual assault. Women accuse him of touching on two shoots: The Magician and the Siamese (2014) And Green Shutters (2021).

The actor is already the target of several complaints for rape and sexual assault. As reported by franceinfo, in the affair of Magician and the Siamese, it is a film assistant who accuses the actor. The one who was then 24 years old denounced in particular “his hands all over [s]we body”.

In the case of Green shutters, it is a 53-year-old decorator who accuses the actor. According to her, Gérard Depardieu made many serious comments during the filming of the film, “caught brutally”he has “kneaded the waist, the stomach, going up to her breasts”before being interrupted by his bodyguards.


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