The Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza has filed a complaint with the Torremolinos (Málaga) police for rape against the actor Gerard Depardieu for some events that occurred in Paris in 1995. Police sources in Malaga have confirmed to EFE that the complaint was filed last week, as La Vanguardia reported this Thursday. Baza has reported that in 1995, when she was collaborating with the magazine Cinemaniatraveled to Paris to interview Depardieu on the occasion of the premiere of Colonel Chabert.

The interview took place in the offices of the production company Roissy Fims, on Avenue Georges V in Paris, it lasted more than an hour and at the end, the French actor began to kiss her on the face and lips “with a frenzy” and put his hand on her groin. “Suddenly I noticed his hand on my chest and then on my crotch, I couldn’t move, I disconnected from my body because he had invaded me. I didn’t feel anything, I only remember the smell of alcohol and nicotine in my mouth, I don’t know how long it lasted,” has explained to the newspaper Baza, that She claims that the actor penetrated her with his fingers.

Upon his return he spoke with the then director of Cinemania, Javier Angulo, but without revealing what had happened. And for almost 30 years he forgot what happened until last April when he began to remember it when reading the news about the complaint of 13 women against Depardieu. Angulo told EFE that Baza told him upon returning from Paris that the interview had been “very unpleasant” and that the actor had even thrown a motorcycle helmet at his head. “She was traumatized,” recalls Angulo, to whom Baza did not want to tell the details of what happened, which he described as “abuse,” although he never said that it was any type of sexual assault.

The reputation of Depardieu, 74 years old and one of the best-known French actors, with titles to his credit such as Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) or the saga Asterix and Obelix (1999-2012), It is gone deteriorated in the last year for the formal accusation of two women for sexual assaults and for having been publicly accused by more than a dozen.

Furthermore, at the beginning of this month a video was released that is part of an unreleased documentary directed by Yann Moix, in which the actor made sexist and obscene comments. “I have a beam in my pants” is just one of the comments heard from the actor, who, as a spectator in a riding arena, makes numerous obscene and sexualizing comments, including towards girls, about women and the practice of riding a horse.

A few days later, the French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, announced that the withdrawal of the Legion of Honor, highest French distinction, awarded to Depardieu in 1996. And last Saturday, the actor made this distinction available to the minister, as stated in a statement from his lawyers, who criticized Andul Malak for “participating in the media lynching” against Depardieu . Also the actor’s family -specifically three of his children, a niece and a granddaughter- considered that the actor is being subject of “an unprecedented persecution” for the sexist comments leaked a few days ago and they described him as someone “very modest, delicate and even prudish in private life.”