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Paris judges have announced a guilty verdict in the sexual assault trial of Gérard Depardieu, the first case involving a prominent screen actor in France’s reckoning with abuse in the film industry.

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Depardieu was convicted of assaulting two women, a 54-year-old set decorator and a 34-year-old production assistant, during filming.

The 76-year-old, a giant of the late 20th-century cinema known for films including Cyrano de Bergerac and Green Card, was tried in March on charges of groping and fondling the two women on the set of the 2021 film The Green Shutters.

The actor could face five years in jail, but prosecutors requested an 18-month suspended prison sentence and registration as a sex offender. The accusers’ lawyers described the actor, who has been publicly accused of abuse by 20 women, as a “sexual predator”. His lawyers dismissed the allegations as exaggerated and lacking credible evidence.

Depardieu told the court in the two-day trial that France’s MeToo movement was going to excesses, comparable to the use of the guillotine in the French revolution. “I defend free speech, I love femininity, but not women who are hysterical,” he said.

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