New twist in this affair. The Paris prosecutor's office has asked an examining magistrate to investigate the rape accusations against Gérard Depardieu, who disputes them, after having initially closed the procedure, AFP learned on Saturday from the public prosecutor.
To relaunch the investigations, the complainant, an actress in her twenties, had filed a complaint with the constitution of civil party after this classification without follow-up in the spring of 2019. Complaints with the constitution of civil party make it possible almost automatically to obtain the opening of a judicial investigation and the designation of an investigating magistrate.
The investigation restarted?
On Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office made requisitions for the purpose of informing the count of rape, he said. It is now for the investigating judge to decide whether or not to launch investigations, which he does in almost all cases.
The complainant "wishes that justice, and in particular the judicial authorities (...) can do their work serenely and in peace", reacted in a press release her lawyer Me Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon, regretting that the preliminary investigation has "inexplicably been closed without continuation ”. Contacted by AFP, Gérard Depardieu's lawyer, Me Hervé Témime, declined to comment on this information.
A first complaint filed in 2018
In June 2019, the prosecution concluded its preliminary investigation after nine months, explaining that "the numerous investigations carried out" had "not made it possible to characterize the offenses denounced in all their constituent elements".
A first complaint was filed at the end of August 2018 at the gendarmerie of Lambesc (Bouches-du-Rhône) by this young actress. According to the latter, the facts she denounces took place at the star's Parisian home, a mansion in the 6th arrondissement, on August 7 and 13, 2018.
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The Aix-en-Provence prosecutor's office immediately opened a preliminary investigation before relinquishing it in favor of the Paris prosecutor's office, which had entrusted the investigations to the 3rd district of the judicial police (DPJ). The 71-year-old actor, sacred monster of the cinema, was then heard in open hearing by the police.
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The investigation for rape and sexual assault targeting Gérard Depardieu closed
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