Following the complaint of the Charlotte Arnould, the Chamber of Investigation considers that there are “serious or concordant indices” which justify the indication of the actor, for these facts that would have been committed in August 2018.
Le Monde with AFP
Gérard Depardieu, a 73-year-old French cinema monument, had tried a request. The Paris Court of Appeal finally confirmed on Thursday, March 10, the indictment of the actor for “rape” and “sexual assault”, following the complaint of the comedian Charlotte Arnould, the Attorney General reported from Paris, Rémy Heitz, in a statement.
“The Chamber of Instruction considers that there are serious or concordant indices at this stage which justify that Gérard Depardieu remains indicted”, for those facts that were committed in August 2018, “said Mr. Heitz.
In May 2021, the actor had made a petition for the nullity of his indictment concerning these facts. The Chamber of Instruction had studied at a hearing on 3 February this request to which the general prosecutor of the Paris Court of Appeal was opposed. “The file now returns” the investigating judge “for further judicial information,” said Rémy Heitz.
“I have nothing to fear”
“I do not wish to comment”, commented on the France-Presse agency (AFP) Charlotte Arnould, present at the Court of Appeal at the time of the deliberation, obviously moved and accompanied by a loved one. “My client is particularly relieved and confident about justice that was made today,” reacted to AFP his lawyer, Carine Durrieu-Diebolt.
“It is important to note that currently all the magistrates responsible for the file”, whatsoever the investigating judge or the court of appeal, “consider that there are serious or concordant indices that leave To think that Gérard Depardieu has committed the facts of sexual assault and rape that he is accused, “added the lawyer. Solicited by AFP, the comedian lawyer, Hervé Temime, did not wish to react.
The case started in the summer of 2018. Charlotte Arnould, born in 1995 and aged 22 at the time of the facts, presented himself at the gendarmerie of Lambesc (Bouches-du-Rhône) at the end of August 2018 in Affirming having been violated a few days earlier twice at the Parisian home of the star, a mansion of 6 e district of Paris.
After many judicial dissertant, a Parisian investigating judge indicted Gérard Depardieu on 16 December 2020 for sexual rape and aggression, leaving him without judicial control. “I am innocent and I have nothing to fear,” said Gérard Depardieu on the Italian daily Repubblica at the end of February 2021, shortly after the AFP revelation of this questioning.