Gérard Depardieu is the target of a new investigation for sexual assault during filming in 2014 after the complaint filed in January by a former assistant. "We learn of the existence of this complaint through the press.

If the courts are seized, I choose, as a lawyer, not to speak publicly about this complaint," his lawyer, Me Christian Saint-Palais, responded to AFP. The actor is already the subject of a judicial investigation for rape, the prosecution said on Friday from Paris.