2024-02-08 15:58:36
Radio France International spoke with the Spanish journalist who filed a complaint against the French actor for rape in December. The attack would have occurred in 1995 after an interview in Paris. With this there are three accusations of rape against Depardieu.
It has become known as “the Gérard Depardieu case.” This is the judicial file opened against the well-known French actor, who has been accused by several women of rape and sexual assault. But this case is not only legal. It became a social and media scandal after the broadcast last December of an extensive report on French public television. In that report the actor is seen during a trip to South Korea, treating women and girls with obscene comments and misogynistic and vulgar attitudes.
Before this report was published, Depardieu had already been accused in court. In 2018, actress Charlotte Arnoult accused him of raping and sexually harassing her. In September 2023, another actress, Hélène Darras, filed a complaint for sexual assault against Depardieu.
Added to this are the accusations of 13 women against the star of the seventh art, made public by Mediapart, a French digital newspaper. That was in April 2023. That news shook another woman, Ruth Baza, a Spanish journalist and writer who had interviewed Depardieu in 1995 in Paris. She was 23 years old at the time, and the actor was 46. Ruth Baza has reported to the authorities that that interview ended in rape, an assault that she forgot for almost 29 years, but that was recorded in her intimate diary Ruth Baza shared her testimony with Radio France International.
The Depardieu case has caused great commotion in France and polarized the world of cinema. Many claim that Depardieu’s behavior with women was known in the media and that no one dared to challenge him, given the importance of the character. Ruth Baza on her side invites us to break the culture of silence.
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