(25 Mar 2025)
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Paris – 25 March 2025
1. Jeremie Assous, lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Jeremie Assous, Gerard Depardieu’s lawyer:
“This morning the president of the court did a report on the case and has confirmed in every respect what we discussed yesterday, namely that all the witnesses who were presented as prosecution witnesses, if you read their entire testimony, are absolutely not prosecution witnesses, but on the contrary are defense witnesses, since they confirm that they never saw Gérard Depardieu assault the plaintiff. Under these conditions, he indicated that the debates would eventually lead to a confrontation or a hearing of these witnesses if the plaintiffs felt that the depositions and the report made on them were not complete. So, it’s important to remember today that, in his report, the (court) president confirmed that all the witnesses presented as prosecution witnesses were not that (prosecution witnesses). Thank you.”
3. Pan from lawyer to Gerard Depardieu, both men walk into courtroom
STORYLINE:
French actor Gerard Depardieu began testifying on Tuesday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France.
The 76-year-old actor is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of the movie “Les Volets Verts” or “The Green Shutters.”
The actor denies any wrongdoing.
The trial was initially scheduled for October but was postponed until Monday because of Depardieu’s health.
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