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The Independent UK
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Sylvie Corbet

Film director found guilty of sexual assault in France’s first big #MeToo trial

Adèle Haenel Christophe Ruggia sexual assault France Roman Polanski Paris
France MeToo Trial - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Paris court found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial.

Filmmaker Christophe Ruggia was sentenced Monday to two years under house arrest with an electronic bracelet plus a two-year suspended sentence. Ruggia had denied any wrongdoing.

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