Le réalisateur Roman Polanski sera jugé pour diffamation, mardi, à Paris, après avoir qualifié de "mensonge odieux" les accusations d'agression sexuelle de l'actrice britannique Charlotte Lewis.
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00:00 The director Roman Polanski will be judged for defamation, Tuesday, in Paris, after having
00:06 called "hateful lies" the sexual assault accusations of the British actress Charlotte Lewis.
00:12 The filmmaker, who won three Oscars and a Golden Palm, was questioned by several
00:17 women throughout his career.
00:19 Back to these different cases.
00:22 Considered a fugitive by American justice since 1977, the director Roman Polanski
00:29 will be found in France on the bench of the accused.
00:32 The French-Polish filmmaker will be judged, Tuesday, March 5, for defamation, after having
00:38 called "hateful lies" the sexual assault accusations of the British actress Charlotte Lewis.
00:43 The 90-year-old director, who lives in Paris, will not appear in front of the audience
00:49 in the 17th Chamber of the Court of Appeal, or let his lawyers know who will represent him.
00:55 Charlotte Lewis, 56, is a homemaker in the United Kingdom, will be present.
01:01 Roman Polanski, who won three Oscars and a Golden Palm, has been accused of sexual
01:07 assault and rape over the course of his career.
01:10 Accusations for all prescribed facts, which he has always contested and which have not
01:14 prevented him from working.
01:16 The accusations of Charlotte Lewis.
01:19 In May 2010, at the Cannes Film Festival, British actress Charlotte Lewis accused the
01:25 director of having sexually assaulted her during a casting organized at his home in Paris
01:30 in 1983, when she was 16 years old.
01:33 She had not filed a complaint but had testified to the Los Angeles police.
01:38 Nine years later, in December 2019, Roman Polanski had described his accusations of
01:43 "hateful lies" in an interview at Paris Match.
01:47 "See, the first quality of a good liar is an excellent memory.
01:51 We always mention Charlotte Lewis in the list of my accusers without ever mentioning
01:56 that she had declared the director. "