Depardieu Trial: "The Word of the Defence Lawyer Is Not Sanctionable, Unlike the Non-Intervention of the Judge"

TRIBUNE. On 13 May, Gérard Depardieu was sentenced for sexual assault, but also for "secondary victimization", because of the statements made by his lawyer at the hearing. In a forum in the "World", lawyers Jérôme Karsenti and Kristel Lepeu believe that this is a way for the judge not to assume his passivity during the trial.

"Excessive hardness of the debates", defence "particularly offensive based on the repeated use of words manifestly useless to the exercise of the rights of the defence and intended to strike" and which have generated "a separate injury from that arising from the commission of the offence". It is in these terms that the Paris Correctional Court, on 13 May 2025, sentenced Gérard Depardieu civilly to pay to the civil parties €1,000 in damages. This…