French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial at a Paris courthouse on sexual assault charges. It is seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France.
How their conduct has gone unchecked for so long is baffling.
Is it really baffling? The film industry protects them. It’s a simple as that. You don’t have to look any farther than the 2003 Academy Awards where Roman Polanski (who fled the US in the 1978 o avoid being prosecuted for sexually assaulting a minor) was wildly applauded for his return.
Where was Roman Polanski working between 1979 and 2004? Anywhere that didn’t have an extradition treaty with the United States, including France.
Him and Luc Besson are a known pair of predatory ephebophiles (attracted to “jailbait”). How their conduct has gone unchecked for so long is baffling.
Is it really baffling? The film industry protects them. It’s a simple as that. You don’t have to look any farther than the 2003 Academy Awards where Roman Polanski (who fled the US in the 1978 o avoid being prosecuted for sexually assaulting a minor) was wildly applauded for his return.
Where was Roman Polanski working between 1979 and 2004? Anywhere that didn’t have an extradition treaty with the United States, including France.