A Paris court docket has discovered the filmmaker Christophe Ruggia responsible of sexual assault on the French actor Adele Haenel within the early 2000s, when she was between 12 and 15 years previous, however spared him jail.
Ruggia was sentenced on Monday to 2 years beneath home arrest with an digital bracelet plus a two-year suspended sentence. He had denied any wrongdoing.
Haenel, now 35, was the primary prime actor in France to accuse the movie trade of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse after the #MeToo motion broke out.
She accused Ruggia in 2019 of getting repeatedly touched her inappropriately throughout and after filming of the film Les Diables or The Devils within the early 2000s.
France’s Society of Movie Administrators, which had chosen Ruggia as its co-president and vice-president a number of occasions between 2003 and 2019, expelled him from the organisation shortly after Haenel’s accusations emerged.
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