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Prosecutor calls for French actor Gerard Depardieu to be found guilty of sexual assaults but to …

Actor still faces jail if convicted over film-set allegations

Gerard Depardieu arriving at his trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021 (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Gerard Depardieu arriving at his trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021 (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Sylvie Corbet

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Paris’s public prosecutor has requested that French actor Gerard Depardieu be found guilty and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence on the last day of a trial over accusations that he sexually assaulted two women who were working on a film with him.

The actor (76) is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of the movie Les Volets Verts. He denied the accusations.

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