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Gérard Depardieu to stand trial over sexual assault allegations

Two women say actor assaulted them, one on a film set in 2021 and the other on another shoot in 2014

The 53-year-old woman told the investigative website Mediapart earlier this year that Depardieu first made obscene comments to her, then later assaulted her as she stepped away from the set and into a corridor inside a Paris mansion where the film was being shot. Feminists and politicians on the left reacted angrily in December after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, described Depardieu – who was then under formal investigation for rape and facing fresh scrutiny over sexist comments filmed in a TV documentary – as the target of a “manhunt”. “You will never see me participate in a manhunt … I hate that type of thing,” Macron told the broadcaster France 5 when asked about the possibility of stripping Depardieu of a state award after the documentary showed footage of sexist and inappropriate behaviour by the actor.

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