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French #MeToo: Christophe Ruggia Faces 5-Yr Prison Sentence With 3 Years Suspended

The prosecutor also requested that Ruggia be placed on France ’s national sex offender registry, be banned from seeking contact with Haenel and also compensate her. She said the sentence took into Ruggia’s refusal to recognize the facts laid out in the trial, as well as the gravity and repeated nature of the sexual assaults. Haenel has accused Ruggia of sexually assaulting and molesting her over the course of three years, beginning with the shoot of The Devils in 2001, when she was 12 and he was 36, and continuing into the promotional and festival tour.

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