Gerard Depardieu to face sexual assault trial in October

Movie star Gerard Depardieu volition beryllium tried successful October for alleged intersexual assaults against 2 women successful 2021, the Paris authoritative said Monday.

The announcement came aft constabulary questioned the 75-year-old for overmuch of the day. His lawyer Christian Saint-Palais told reporters that the histrion had been released without charge.

The nationalist authoritative said successful a connection the histrion would look proceedings implicit the assaults allegedly committed successful September 2021 connected the acceptable of the movie "The Green Shutters."

Depardieu has consistently denied immoderate wrongdoing.

Cinema mainstay, nary alien to controversy

Depardieu has faced respective intersexual misconduct allegations successful caller years and is taxable to an ongoing rape probe where helium proclaims his innocence, with those charges archetypal made successful 2020. 

He's said his attraction successful home media successful caller years amounted to a "lynching," and has besides recovered immoderate enactment for this stance successful France. 

Depardieu, 75, is possibly the astir recognizable antheral look of his procreation successful French cinema. Some of his astir celebrated roles see playing Asterix's bulky sidekick Obelix, "Jean de Florette" successful a French cinema classical treble header, and Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1991 relation for which helium was adjacent nominated for the Best Actor Oscar contempt it being successful a connection different than English.

He's besides been nary alien to contention successful caller years. 

Just implicit a decennary ago, complaining among different things astir taxation rates for precocious earners being introduced by then-President Francois Hollande, Depardieu obtained Russian citizenship. 

In 2015, his comments connected Russia's annexation of Crimea led to Ukraine's authorities blacklisting him. 

And successful December, comments he'd made astir women during a 2018 sojourn to North Korea deemed vulgar by immoderate came to airy and prompted renewed nationalist scrutiny. 

msh/nm (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)