French film director Christophe Ruggia is finally heading to trial on charges of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was underage. Haenel, one of the first to call someone in French ...

PARIS, France (AFP) – A French filmmaker accused of sexually assaulting actor Adele Haenel when she was 12 denied the charges Monday as his trial opened in Paris, five years after her ...

In excerpts shown at the trial, one scene showed the 12-year-old actor getting out of the shower and walking down a long corridor naked. In another, the camera zooms in on her as she caresses herself.

A film director has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old actor while working on a movie, in one of the first #MeToo-related verdicts in French cinema.. Christophe Ruggia was accused ...

The trial began Monday and is expected to last two days. Haenel made headlines back in 2020 when she stood up and walked out of the César Awards after Roman Polanski won Best Director for his ...

The actress Adèle Haenel has accused the director Christophe Ruggia of grooming and sexually assaulting her when she was 12. If found guilty, he faces up to a decade in prison.

Adèle Haenel, a French actor who has accused a filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, shouted at him to "shut up" before storming out in the middle of his trial.