Gerard Depardieu Sexual Assault Trial Court is a cultural computation for post- # Metoho France

Paris – Paris (AP) – Gérard Depardieu won’t just face two women accusing him Sexual attack When he enters the courtroom in Paris on Monday. The renowned actor will also face a nation a long time criticized for failure to resolve sexual violence – especially when they committed his most powerful personalities.

Depardieu, 76, one of the largest star-screen stars is accused of attacking a set of construction and assistants during recording “LES VOLOS VERTS” (‘green eyelids’). While more than 20 women publicly accused him of a sexual misdemeanor, this is the first time that one of those cases went to the trial.

It is also the most prominent post- #Metoo -er case in FranceTesting Is the country known for his culture of seduction ready to consider his cultural titanium responsibility.

Prosecutors say Depardie was captured by one of the women with his legs before his waist and breasts before her witnesses. In an interview with the investigative output MEDIAPART, the 54-year-old chest of drawers said that Depardie shouted that “he couldn’t even be raised”, then tell her, “Come on my big parasol. I’ll touch him in your (mesh regions).” She said she grabbed hard then and had to pull them with bodyguards.

The other woman, the 34-year assistant director, alleged, is alleged on the set and on the street. The identity of the plaintiffs were not revealed to protect the alleged victims of sexual violence.

Depardieu denied all the allegations.

In the open letter published in Le Figarou in October, he wrote, “Never, but never, I didn’t abuse a woman. Thinking I hurt someone or felt embarrassing.”

He added: “I’m just guilty that I’m too loved, too generous, or a temperament that is too strong.”

His lawyer, Jéremie Assoun, called the basically and said Depardie – who recently undergings four-waypoints and has diabetes – will attend a two-day trial, allegedly with breaks that are scheduled in accordance with his health condition.

France was often ambivalent – even resistant – towards the movement #Metoo. While Hollywood saw strong men quickly and publicly, the French film industry was slower to answer. Some rejected #Metoo as US exports incompatible with French values, citing concerns about the free expression and what they looked like the erosion of the culture of flirting.

Roman PolanskiDonated in the United States of illegal sex with juvenile and accused by several other women, he continues to live and work in France with almost complete impunity. Despite the international interest, he remains decorated with figure in French China. His 2020 César reward for the best director – for ‘officer and spy’ – he encouraged several women, including actress Adèle Haenelto get out of the ceremony in the protest.

However, the industry offered a small institutional return, emphasizing deep rooted reluctance to oppose abuse when included respected cultural numbers.

In February, director Christophe Ruggia convicted of sexual abuse of Haenel when she was underage. The actress, which has already left the film industry in protest, has become one of the most prominent votes in the country on abuse.

Judith GodrècheThe actor and filmmaker, also appeared as a leading figure. In February 2024. in television testimony, he addressed the French Parliamentary Commission, the Benoît Jacquot Access Director and Jacques Doillon Sexually exploiting her as a teenager – allegations and men deny. “It’s not about a wish or love,” she said about a representative. “It’s about power. It’s a system that allows silence.”

That same commission called on the main actors and producers – including Jean Dujardin – to testify. Several allegedly requested that their performances are held behind closed doors.

Anouk Greenberg, a valued actor who appeared in “Les Volos Verts,”, publicly supported prosecutors. She described Depardie’s behavior as a vulgar and disturbing, saying she felt a “feeling of shame” on the set.

During the alleged 2021 attacks, Depardieu was already under a formal rape investigation. In 2018. The actor Charlotte Artio would accuse him of raping him in his home. This case is still active, and in August 2023. years, the prosecutors asked to go to the trial.

Depardieu’s out of the controversy screen have long-made titles, from drunk driving to urine in the aircraft passage. But 2023. French Telévissions documentary, “La Chute de l’Ogre” (‘decline in ogre’), rising debate on his impunity. He showed recordings of the actor during the trip for 2018. year in North Korea, making sexually inappropriate remarks of the female interpreter and appearing sexualizing a young girl riding a horse.

For decades, behavior such as this was rejected as part of its larger than personal personnel. Today it is that heritage is under a direct challenge.

Godrèche, who said that he was 14 when Jacquo’s first used her, called on the reforms in the French Statute of Restrictions on Children’s Sexual Crimes and New Protections of Minors in Art. Her testimony – with those other survivors – led to a rare political attention to the culture of silence that many say they pervades French cinema.

However, resistance remains.

In 2018, the actor Catherine Deneuve and more than 100 prominent French women signed an open letter in ‘Le Monde’ who defended what they called “freedom to bother”. The letter claimed that flirting should not be associated with harassment and warn against the Puritanism of the American Style.