16:00 – A witness says he was attacked by Gérard Depardieu
One of the witnesses, a brown woman with short hair, declares at the helm to have “also been attacked by Gérard Depardieu”. This costume designer claims not to know the two complainants and says he was attacked at the actor’s home and in a theater in March 2014, on the sidelines of the shooting of Jean-Pierre Mocky’s film “The Magician and the Siamese”. She filed a complaint in January 2024. “I think Mr. Depardieu is clearly a liar,” she said before leaving the courtroom.
2:24 PM – Fanny Ardant “did not attend a gesture [..] shocking”
At the beginning of the afternoon, actress Fanny Ardant is heard to testify in favor of Gérard Depardieu. The actress, who describes her partner on the screen as “her friend”, played in Green shutters by Jean Becker. If she confirms that the actor “says rudeness” and “likes to do the idiot” on a set, she says she has never seen him commit sexual assault. “I never attended a gesture that I could have found shocking,” she said. “The big words, okay. The rest, no.” However, she confirms that she “was not there” during the facts denounced by Sarah.
13:04 – La Défense pleads the release
After delivering her version of the facts, Sarah* had to answer questions from the lawyers of the various camps. That of Gérard Depardieu, Me Astou, wanted to highlight the fact that the complainant posed with Gérard Depardieu at the end of filming (after the attacks she denounces). She explains that at the time, she “minimized the facts”. The tone has come up again, since the lawyer commented that “for [lui]you are indeed someone who lies “, before pleading the release:” no attack has taken place “, proclaims the lawyer. The hearing is suspended until 2 p.m.
10:35 – Sarah’s complaint is the subject of the day’s debates
A new day opened as part of the Gérard Depardieu trial, this Wednesday, March 26, 2025. It is Sarah’s turn (assumed name), assistant director on the set of the film Green shutters From Jean Becker, to come back to his story. She relates several sexual assaults, ensuring that she said no in the last two assaults and having been petrified during the first, where he would have “got her a hand on the buttocks”. A few minutes earlier, the actor once again denied, ensuring that he was “never alone”, and does not remember having touched or brushed Sarah: “From my own will, I will not touch the buttocks. Even furtively, it does not come to the idea”, he assures.