Overview

• A juge d'instruction referred the 76-year-old to the Cour criminelle départementale de Paris for alleged rapes and sexual assaults.
• The case centers on two acts described as digital penetration on 7 and 13 August 2018 at Depardieu’s home in Paris.
• Charlotte Arnould welcomed the decision as a step toward “judicial truth” and said she felt relief after seven years.
• Depardieu denies the allegations as consensual encounters and has been under formal investigation since December 16, 2020.
• He is appealing a separate May 2025 conviction in Paris for sexual assaults on a 2021 film set that carried an 18‑month suspended sentence.