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French #MeToo: Christophe Ruggia Given Two-Year Custodial Sentence With Electronic Bracelet In Landmark Trial Brought By Adèle Haenel
French #MeToo: Christophe Ruggia Given Two-Year Custodial Sentence With Electronic Bracelet In Landmark Trial Brought By Adèle Haenel
AFP via Getty Images French director Christophe Ruggia has been sentenced to a two-year custodial sentence under house arrest with an electronic bracelet following a landmark trial on accusations by actress Adèle Haenel that he sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. The sentence comes five years after Haenel went public in 2019 with sexual assault accusations against Ruggia in an interview with investigative website Mediapart. Haenel 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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