Gérard Depardieu trial: prosecutor calls for 18-month suspended sentence

The French actor denies allegations during filming of Les Volets Vert, as defendants' lawyers describe him as sexual predator' and misogynist'

Gerard Depardieu should be found guilty of the indisputable" sexual assault of a set decorator, as well as sexual assaults of an assistant film director, the French state prosecutor has told Paris's criminal court, requesting the actor serve an 18-month suspended prison sentence.

Depardieu is on trial for the alleged sexual assault of the women, aged 54 and 34, during the shooting of the film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) in Paris in 2021. He has denied any wrongdoing, telling the court: I deny all of it."