French actor Gerard Depardieu to face trial over alleged rape and sexual assault of fellow actor

French histrion Gerard Depardieu has been summoned to look proceedings successful Paris implicit allegations of rape and intersexual battle against histrion Charlotte Arnould.

"I consciousness relieved," Ms Arnould wrote connected Instagram aft receiving the judge's indictment order.

"The bid restores a signifier of judicial truth. I deliberation I'm having occupation realising however immense this is."

Ms Arnould's lawyer, Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, told French outlet Franceinfo she was "extremely satisfied" and said the determination was a "moment of judicial information successful this case".

In 2018, prosecutors successful Paris opened a preliminary probe aft Ms Arnould accused Depardieu of raping her astatine his home. He has denied wrongdoing.

"The acts of rape and intersexual battle person been acknowledged," Ms Arnould said. "Now, we await the adjacent steps."

Last year, prosecutors submitted a petition for the lawsuit to proceed to trial.

Earlier this year, Depardieu was convicted of sexually assaulting 2 women connected a movie acceptable and received an 18-month suspended situation sentence.

The 76-year-old was convicted of groping a 34-year-old adjunct and a 54-year-old pistillate liable for decorating the acceptable during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) successful 2021.

The tribunal ordered his sanction to beryllium listed successful the nationalist enactment offender database.

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Depardieu, 1 of the astir salient figures successful French cinema for decades, told the tribunal his vocation includes much than 250 films.

In 1991, helium was nominated for an Oscar for his show arsenic the swordsman and writer Cyrano de Bergerac.

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In caller years, Depardieu has been accused of misconduct, either publically oregon successful ceremonial complaints, by much than 20 women.

So far, lone the intersexual battle lawsuit has proceeded to court, with different cases dropped implicit a deficiency of grounds oregon an expired statute of limitations.