A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial.

Haenel accused Ruggia of abusing her from the age of 12 to 15, both during and after filming of The Devils. She often went to Ruggia’s house, where he would touch her between the legs and caress ...

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.

Set in 18th-century Brittany, the film stars Adèle Haenel – who worked with Sciamma on Water Lilies, and with whom the director was in a relationship for a number of years – as Héloïse.

A French film director has been found guilty of sexually assaulting actor Adèle Haenel when she was underage. Christophe ...

French actress Adele Haenel has won her court case after accusing Christophe Ruggia of molesting her as a child (Picture: Shutterstock) In a landmark victory, French actress Adele Haenel’s ...

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 ...

A Paris court on Monday handed down a four-year sentence to French director Christophe Ruggia for the sexual abuse over several years of child actress Adèle Haenel. Two years have been suspended ...

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 ...

French filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, who was accused of sexual assault in 2019 by actor Adele Haenel, received a four-year sentence. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

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 ...

A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial.