The British prosecutor’s office authorized prosecution against the film producer, whose crimes had triggered the #MeToo movement in 2017.
Le Monde with AFP
Hollywood’s deposed film producer Harlywood Harvey Weinstein, whose crimes had triggered the #MeToo movement in 2017, will be charged in the United Kingdom for sexual assault, the British prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday, June 8. in A press release, the crown prosecution service (CPS) said it “authorized the Metropolitan Police to continue Harvey Weinstein for two charges concerning sexual assault on a woman in August 1996”.
The proceedings were authorized “following a revision of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in his investigation,” he added. According to a press release from the London police, which must now formally charge Mr. Weinstein, the alleged victim is now in his fifty years.
In March 2020, Mr. Weinstein was sentenced to twenty-three years of imprisonment for sexual assault in 2006 and rape in 2013. At the beginning of June, American justice rejected a producer and maintained his Judgment.
70 years old, Mr. Weinstein is currently incarcerated in a prison in California where he is expecting a new trial for alleged sexual assault against five women.
In total, some 90 women – including celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek – accused Mr. Weinstein of harassment or sexual assault.
The revelations and the fall of the producer, from October 2017, had triggered the world movement #MeToo of awareness and women’s struggle against assaults and sexual crimes.