French #MeToo: Christophe Ruggia Faces 5-Yr Prison Sentence With 3 Years Suspended
deadline.comThe Paris prosecutor’s office has requested five years in prison, with three years suspended, for French director Christophe Ruggia in relation to accusations by actress Adèle Haenel that he sexually assaulted her when she was a minor.
The sentence request was made on the final day of a dramatic two-day trial in Paris this week, some five years after Haenel went public in 2019 with accusations against Ruggia, accusing him of sexually assaulting her as a teenager after he cast her in his 2002 feature The Devils.
Ruggia is not expected to do jail time but will likely spend the two-year custodial part of the requested sentence under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, if the sentence is upheld.
A final sentence will be announced on February 3. The prosecutor also requested that Ruggia be placed on France’s national sex offender registry, be banned from seeking contact with Haenel and also compensate her.
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