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Depardieu Denies 'Groping' Women In France Sex Abuse Trial

French star actor Gerard Depardieu said groping women is 'alien' to him (Credit: AFP)

French star actor Gerard Depardieu, on trial for sexual assault, told the Paris court on Tuesday that he was not in the habit of "groping" women, and called the #MeToo movement a "reign of terror."

"I don't see why I would go around groping a woman, her buttocks, her breasts," Depardieu said in his first statement at the trial, in which he is charged with sexual assault on two women during the shooting of a film in 2021.

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