A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adele Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s.
Filmmaker Christophe Ruggia was sentenced on Monday to two years under house arrest with an electronic bracelet plus a two-year suspended sentence.
Ruggia had denied any wrongdoing.
Haenel, now 35, was one of the first major figures in France to accuse the film industry of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse after the MeToo movement emerged.
In 2019, she accused Ruggia of having repeatedly touched her inappropriately during and after filming of the movie Les Diables in the early 2000s.
https://thewest.com.au/news/crime/french-film-director-ruggia-found-guilty-of-sex-assault-c-17602477
