French director Christophe Ruggia has been sentenced to a two-year custodial sentence under house arrest with an electronic bracelet following a landmark trial on accusations by actress Adèle Haenel that he sexually assaulted her when she was a minor.

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 cinema.

A film director has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old actress while working on a movie, in one of the first #MeToo-related verdicts in French cinema. Christophe Ruggia, 60, was accused by actress Adele Haenel of repeatedly touching her inappropriately while working on the movie The Devils in 2001,