Gérard Depardieu: French actor’s sexual assault trial set to resume

Paris
CNN
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The trial of Gérard Depardieu, who has been accused of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set in 2021, is set to resume on Monday after a five-month delay due to the French actor’s poor health.

The 76-year-old actor faces charges of allegedly assaulting the women while filming “Les Volets Verts,” or “The Green Shutters”.

Depardieu was accused in both cases of using “violence, coercion, surprise, or threat” in the alleged assaults, by trapping the victims between his legs and groping their buttocks, genitals, and chest” over their clothing according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

Depardieu has denied any…