Gérard Depardieu’s trial for sexual assault opened this on Monday in an electric atmosphere. The actor’s lawyer claimed the procedure cancellation at the start. What to bristle the complainants and their supporters, of which Anouk Grinberg is a part.
20:34 – For the lawyer for Gérard Depardieu, the complainants “fear the truth”
The one who asked for a series of new acts on Monday on Monday: “The truth will be established.” At the end of the courtroom, Gérard Depardieu’s lawyer, Me Jérémie Assous, believes that “any objective, indisputable and impartial element is systematically refused by the complainants”. For him, the latter “fear the truth, because the truth is on our side. Gérard Depardieu has never attacked these complainants,” he said. And to note: “He apologized for being rude, direct, brutal, but he never apologized for sexual assault. We make people believe that these are confessions. It has never been the case!”
20:15 – The suspended hearing
The hearing, which was initially to conclude at 7:30 p.m., due to the health problems of Gérard Depardieu, could finally be extended by almost 45 minutes so that the complainants could respond to the defense lawyer. The hearing is now suspended. She will resume Tuesday, at 9:30 am.
19:39 – The complainant parties invited to answer despite the past time
Gérard Depardieu’s lawyer who finished his argument at 7:37 p.m. and his client who could not stay more than six hours in the courtroom for health reasons, the complainants feared not having the right to answer this evening. The president finally indicates that they will be able to speak. “We have been taking you for fools for hours,” deplores the lawyer for Sarah*, Vincent. And to point: “We are asking you today an expertise in 2025 to find out if in 2021, he [Gérard Depardieu ndlr.] was able to do 160 meters “on foot. For Me Vincent,” it’s ridiculous to ask for new acts and the file totally contradicts what you have just been told. “Me Durrieu Diebolt, lawyer of the decorator, believes that there are” enough elements “, since three witnesses claim that there was an incident.
18:56 – Resumption of the audience, an eye on the watch for the complainants
After a short suspension of ten minutes, supposed to allow the complainant parties and the prosecution to take note of the documents brought today, in a single copy, by Me Jérémie Assous, the lawyer of Gérard Depardieu, the hearing resumes. The actor’s advice is at the helm. “I probably have for more than an hour …”, he said right away, without forgetting to recall that because of the health of his client, the audience will have to end around 7:30 p.m. This does not fail to arouse a “wave of sighs” in the courtroom, relays journalist Noémie Schulz, present on the spot.
18:49 – Anouk Grinberg expelled from the courtroom
While she annoyed herself with the attitude and words of the lawyer for Gérard Depardieu, actress Anouk Grinberg, who came to support the complainants, was forced to leave the courtroom. The atmosphere on site would be “electric”, reports Vincent Vantighem, BFMTV journalist.
18:32 – New suspension of the hearing: doubt about the resumption of the audience and exasperation of Anouk Grinberg
The president proposed a new suspension so that the parties can read the requests for acts of Me Jérémie Assous, the lawyer of Gérard Depardieu, who did not have transmitted them before. While some wonder about the resumption of the hearing after that, the Gérard Depardieu’s council recalls that the hearing must be lifted in all cases at 7:30 p.m. “It will be 6 hours, the doctor said no more than 6 hours of hearing” for the actor, “he notes. What arouse the indignation of some, including Anouk Grinbert. The actress let out a cry of exasperation in the middle of a courtroom. “Madame Grinberg has something to say?” Then turned to her, all smiles, Me Jérémie Assous.
18:11 – After a break, the audience resumes
After a hearing suspension to allow the deliberation of the court on the conclusions of nullity, the president said that the Correction Court joined the incident on the merits concerning the conditions of nullity. However, Me Assous presents new parts in the context of requests for acts. They were not sent to the complainants or the prosecution before the hearing. “When we bring a single set of conclusions at the last moment, we are far from the contradictory,” annoys the prosecutor. The civil parties denounce “dilatory maneuver on dilatory maneuver to waste audience time”.
16:59 – Lawyers for civil parties counterattack
The turn of the civil parties of expressed on the nullities raised by the lawyer of Gérard Depardieu. “I wonder if I will have the right, too, at 1:46 am from pleading on the merits,” asks Me Claude Vincent, who defends the director-director. She denounces “things that are not audible”, in particular “a myth that would be a dependent investigation”. And to add by denouncing a preferential treatment: “never, if it was not Gérard Depardieu, you would have let the bottom of the file plead on the grounds of the conclusions of nullity.”
16:23 – Gérard Depardieu’s lawyer requests the cancellation of the procedure
For more than 1:30 am, Me Jérémie Assous denounced the procedure. He assures that there are no witness to the two assaults denounced and that “the most basic principles were trampled on” during the procedure, tackling the judicial police officer but also the public prosecutor. He requests the cancellation of the procedure, which he deems “scandalous”. A five -minute break was requested before resumption of debates. The recall of the facts, has not yet taken place.
15:08 – The lawyer assures that no one has seen anything
The defense lawyer, Me Astou, denounced “elementary principles trampled” and wishes to file conclusions of nullity in this file. He assures that “many people say they have witnessed any assault or even incidents when they were on the set of the film Green shutters “counting 19 people in this case and regretting that none of them have been heard on minutes, and that no one heard the obscene insult uttered at the decorator, while many people were in the small apartment which was used for the decorations of the film, according to him. He denounces “a wobbly manhunt” whose objective would have been to “bring down the sacred monster”.
14:26 – The conditions for keeping the detailed trial
Due to the state of health of Gérard Depardieu, arrangements have been planned: the hearings will not last more than six hours, with a break of break every 3 hours. The actor has the right to get up during the hearing, to eat sweet bars, has access to private toilets and a rest room, and can have access to his phone to take his blood sugar. It is also not excluded that the trial lasts three days, instead of the two days initially announced.
2:03 p.m. – Fanny Ardant will be heard tomorrow
The president begins the call of witnesses, before the complainants and the accused were heard. Actress Fanny Ardant is one of the people called to the bar to testify. The actress, a long -standing friend of Gérard Depardieu, will be heard as a witness this Tuesday, March 25 from 1:30 p.m., and left the audience for this Monday. Recall that the 76 -year -old actress participated in the shooting of the film Green shutters In 2021. The accusations of sexual assault was formulated as part of this filming.
13:50 – A closed door possible in case of overflow
Gérard Depardieu’s trial began. The president wanted to recall the rules of use to open the hearing, while brandishing the threat of closed doors in the event of overflow: “The court wishes that during the hearing time, silence is perfectly respected so that the parties can express themselves” he wanted to recall.
13:44 – The trial will start, several personalities present
Gérard Depardieu was invited to sit on the defendant’s bench, a sign that the hearing will soon begin. Several celebrities are present in the room according to the observation of several journalists: Fanny Ardant, arrived last and seated on the public bench. Karine Silla, ex-partner of Depardieu, also made the trip, in the company of her husband Vincent Pérez who played with the actor in Cyrano. On the complainant’s side, we find actress Anouk Grinberg, who denounced the behavior of the 76 -year -old actor several months ago, but also Charlotte Arnould, who is the first to have denounced the actor by accusing him of rape in another file (which is not the subject of the trial on Monday).
13:15 – Gérard Depardieu arrived at his trial
Deemed able to appear according to medical expertise, Gérard Depardieu arrived at the Paris Criminal Court a quarter of an hour before the hearing start. According to information from BFM TV, the actor went directly to the courtroom without saying a word, surrounded by his supporters: in particular his former Karine Silla and actor Vincent Pérez (her current husband).