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Pyongyang – 7 September 2018
1. French actor Gérard Depardieu exiting an elevator inside his hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea
2. Wide of Gérard Depardieu speaking with group
3. Wide of Gérard Depardieu sitting down at a cafe inside the hotel
4. Wide of Gérard Depardieu talking with people saying "I don’t want journalists"
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Berlin – 19 February 2016
5. Gérard Depardieu arrives at premiere of "Saint Amour"
6. Medium of Gérard Depardieu with co-star Vincent Lacoste, directors join them, pull out to wide
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Cannes, France – 22 May 2015
7. Various L-R Guillaume Nicloux, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Dan Warner on red carpet for "Valley of Love"
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Cannes, France – 18 May 2014
8. Gérard Depardieu arriving with President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, and film director Frederic Auburtin
9. Various Gérard Depardieu and Blatter
10. Various Gérard Depardieu and Blatter posing at the top of the Palais steps
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Athens – 17 January 2008
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11. Wide of cast of film "Asterix and the Olympic Games" with Gérard Depardieu waving
12. Medium of Gérard Depardieu and cast getting ready to sit at press conference
13. Pull out from Gérard Depardieu to panel
14. Gérard Depardieu and director of film, Frederic Forestier, posing for photos
STORYLINE:
French actor Gérard Depardieu, who is facing trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021, won’t appear before a criminal court in Paris on Monday due to health reasons, his lawyer said.
Depardieu, who previously has denied any wrongdoing, is accused of using “violence, coercion, surprise or threat” in the alleged assault, which prosecutors said took place on the set of “Les Volets verts” (”The Green Shutters.")
Lawyer Jérémie Assous said doctors say the actor’s health doesn’t allow him to appear for the opening of the trial on Monday.
Depardieu "is deeply affected and unfortunately his doctors don’t allow him to appear at the hearing,” Assous told France Info radio.
Assous said he will ask the court for the postponement of the trial because his client “wishes to come, wants to express himself.”
Prosecutors say that in both cases, victims reported that the 75-year-old actor trapped them between his legs and groped their buttocks, genitals, chest and breasts over their clothes.
The trial was scheduled as France continues to reckon with sexual violence in the wake of the #MeToo movement that struggled to find traction especially in the cinema industry.
Prosecutors say there are witnesses on the film set
One of the victims has been identified as a 53-year-old production designer. The Associated Press doesn’t generally identify victims of sexual assault without their consent. Her lawyer did not respond to an AP’s email on that matter.
According to Paris prosecutors, the woman told investigators that she’d first heard sexual remarks from Depardieu and then one day, as she walked past him, he had "grabbed her, pulled her toward him, blocked her with his legs, and groped her waist, hips and chest, accompanying his gestures with obscene remarks."
Three people witnessed it, prosecutors said, confirming that the woman made an attempt to break away from Depardieu’s grip and that she seemed “shocked.” A psychiatrist examination granted her a seven-day leave.
The woman, according to prosecutors, said it had taken her a while to file a complaint but she decided to do so after hearing on television that there had never been an incident during the shoot.
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