A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexually assaulting French actress Adele Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big MeToo trial.
Christophe Ruggia was sentenced to two years under house arrest with an electronic bracelet plus a two-year suspended sentence.
Ruggia had denied any wrongdoing.
Ms Haenel, now 35, was the first top star in France to accuse the film industry of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse after the MeToo movement broke out.
In 2019, she accused Ruggia of having repeatedly touched her inappropriately during and after filming of the movie Les Diables (The Devils) in the early 2000s.
