Paris court declines to drop rape charges against Depardieu

[Sherman A1]

A French court on Thursday rejected a bid by star actor Gérard Depardieu to have rape charges against him dropped, the chief prosecutor in the case said.

The actor, 73, was last year charged with raping and sexually assaulting a young French actress at his home in Paris three years earlier, an accusation he has called "baseless".

But Paris chief prosecutor Remy Heitz said in a statement that there was "serious and confirmed evidence that justifies Gérard Depardieu to remain charged" in the case brought by the actress, Charlotte Arnould.

The case will now go back to the prosecuting magistrate who is to resume her work on the case, Heitz said.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220310-paris-court-declines-to-drop-rape-charges-against-depardieu

[Beakybird]

1. Have other women come forward to complain about him?

[XanaDUer2]

2. Didn't he brag that he and friends raped

Women regularly in their youth? There was a mild kerfuffle at the time. I never watched another movie of his after that