A film director is found guilty of sexual assault on then-child actor Adèle Haenel in France’s first big MeToo trial.

French director Christophe Ruggia has been sentenced to two years of house arrest after being found guilty of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel, according to multiple reports. He will have an ...

A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was underage, in one of the first #MeToo cases to emerge from French ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Haenel first publicly accused him of sexual assault in 2019, saying he exercised undue control over her and isolated her from her family and crew ...

Adèle Haenel was the first prominent French actor to accuse the French film industry of turning a blind eye to sexual assault A French film director has been found guilty of sexually assaulting ...

PARIS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adele Haenel when she was underage, in one of the first #MeToo ...

Ruggia’s lawyers called the ruling “unjustified” and said they would appeal. Haenel first went public with her sexual assault allegation against Ruggia in 2019 in an interview with French ...

French filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, who was accused in 2019 by “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” actor Adele Haenel of having sexually abused her when she was a minor, was found guilty of sexual ...

French Director Christophe Ruggia has been sentenced to two years of house arrest for sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor. Ruggia will serve under house arrest with an ...

The sentence comes six years after Haenel went public in 2019 with sexual assault accusations against Ruggia in an interview with investigative website Mediapart. Related Stories News Cameron Diaz ...