PARIS (NEWSnet/AP) — French actor Gerard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October, for alleged sexual assault in 2021 of two women on the set of a film, prosecutors said Monday.

Depardieu, 75, who has denied wrongdoing, was detained for questioning Monday by police in Paris.

The Paris public prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the actor has been “summoned to appear before the criminal court” after questioning.

A trial will start in October for sexual assaults likely to have been committed in September 2021 on the set of “Les Volets verts" (“The Green Shutters").

France newspaper Le Parisien reported that a 53-year-old movie decorator alleged Depardieu violated her sexually during filming, according to the woman’s lawyer, Carine Durrieu Diebolt.

In an open letter in October 2023, Depardieu said: “I have never, ever abused a woman.”

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