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Gerard Depardieu know this Friday the judgment of the Paris Criminal Court which shall decide on the facts of driving while intoxicated charges against the actor against which a fine and suspension of permits were required.
The French film star, who said the weekend will get a seventh passport by submitting a request to the Algerian authorities had not attended, May 24, at his trial at the courthouse in Paris.
A fine of € 4,000 and a license suspension of ten months there had been required for driving drunk on his scooter in the capital in November 2012.
The star of French cinema incurs 4500 euro fine and a theoretical sentence of up to two years in prison for having been tested with a BAC of 1, 8 g per liter of blood (the authorized rate is 0.5 g).
< br> His absence due to a shooting in Chechnya, had not failed to be relieved by the prosecutor, Aurelia Devos: "It's always frustrating when a defendant who contests the facts are not there to be asked directly, it is regrettable and damaging ".
Examination of the offense with Gerard Depardieu, 64, had been postponed three times, partly because of his absences.
representative of the prosecutor's office had ruled that the responsibility of the actor was not "questionable." "A strong smell of alcohol emerges" when the police come to arrest him after his accident, "he gets angry "and said at first he did not want to be controlled because it" drank ", described Ms. Devos.
the actor's lawyer, Mr. Eric de Caumont had said that the last glasses of "champagne" of the actor went up to many hours before his arrest and had been consumed before boarding a plane returning from Uzbekistan yesterday.
Uzbekistan is with Chechnya and Russia, one of the preferred star in recent years destinations. He received Russian citizenship in January after acquiring a residence Néchin (Belgium) and sparked controversy on tax motivations of his departure.
Renowned for its excesses, the actor had, among other pranks, stunned paparazzi in Florence in 2005, urinated in the cabin of a flight from Paris to Dublin in 2011, hit a motorist in central Paris in August. In 2006, he was sentenced to Montlucon (France) to 3,500 euro fine for having insulted labor inspectors during a shoot.
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