- Title: Opposing lawyers in Depardieu sexual assault trial accuse each other of lies
- Date: 26th March 2025
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 26, 2025) (REUTERS) FRENCH ACTOR, GERARD DEPARDIEU, WALKING OUTSIDE COURTROOM PEOPLE EXITING COURTROOM FOR RECESS DEPARDIEU EXITING COURTROOM FOR RECESS LAWYER FOR ONE OF CIVIL PARTIES, CLAUDE VINCENT, EXITING COURTROOM (SOUNDBITE) (French) LAWYER FOR ONE OF CIVIL PARTIES, CLAUDE VINCENT, SAYING: "She (client) reacted very well because from the moment
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- Keywords: Assous Depardieu France civil parties sexual assault
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Europe,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA001177826032025RP1
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- Story Text: The lawyers of opposing camps in the trial of French actor Gerard Depardieu over sexual assault allegations on Wednesday (March 26) traded accusations of lying inside the courtroom, as the trial went beyond schedule.
Civil parties lawyer Claude Vincent accused Depardieu's lawyer Jeremie Assous of formulating lies during the third day of the hearing, causing stress to her client.
"My client is not a liar. But on the contrary, let me make clear that, yes, there are so many lies in this trial, but they're not coming from our side," Vincent told journalists as the trial went into midday recess.
Assous on the other hand bounced back accusations of lies to the plaintiffs' and civil parties' side, adding that the debates are "in favour of Gerard Depardieu."
"From the moment we put the plaintiffs face to face with the reality, with the case and with the objective elements, there are immediately contradictions within these that are revealed, and the case crumbles," he said.
Assous said Depardieu has been socially "banished" a result of the accusations.
Depardieu admitted in court on Tuesday (March 25) that he had grabbed by the hips a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, but denied it was assault, attributing any crude comments he had made to being in a bad mood.
His trial is the highest-profile #MeToo case in the media industry to come before the courts in France. He has denied wrongdoing and this is the first case over which he is standing trial.
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