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Migrant dies from gunshot wound in northern France

A migrant found shot in northern France died of his wounds overnight, prosecutors said on Sunday, with a second person injured.

Published: 4 February 2024 15:01 CET
A photograph showing a flashing light with a sign reading police on a police car in France.
A photograph showing a flashing light with a sign reading police on a police car in France. A migrant found shot in northern France died of his wounds overnight, prosecutors said on Sunday. (Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP)

The fatally wounded man was “found, still alive, on the side of the A16 road near the town of Grande-Synthe,” said Charlotte Hutet, prosecutor in adjacent Dunkirk.

“This man was living in a migrant camp near to the spot where he was found” at Loon-Plage, she added, saying his identity had yet to be confirmed.

He had been shot in the chest, a police source said.

The second person, a 33-year-old Iraqi also believed to be living in the camp, was wounded in the hand, the source said on condition of anonymity.

Police opened an investigation into the shooting.

Up to 600 migrants currently live in camps around Dunkirk, according to Claire Millot of the Salam aid group.

The area has long been a jumping-off point for people attempting irregular crossings to Britain, which has poured resources into police cooperation with France in a bid to halt arrivals.

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French police summon Gérard Depardieu over suspected sexual assault

French police summoned cinema legend Gérard Depardieu on Monday over suspected incidents of sexual assault with a view towards placing him in custody for questioning, a police source said.

Published: 29 April 2024 11:23 CEST
French police summon Gérard Depardieu over suspected sexual assault

Police were to question the actor over two women’s allegations that he assaulted them – one on a film set in 2014 and the other on another shoot in 2021, the source said, confirming a report by the BFMTV television channel.

The first woman accuses him of having assaulted her when she was a member of the crew on the 2022 feature film “The Green Shutters”.

The set designer, who filed a formal complaint in February, told investigative website Mediapart that Depardieu grabbed her as she left the set in a private hotel in Paris, groping her and making obscene comments, before his bodyguards removed him.

The second woman has alleged he groped her “all over” and made “inappropriate” remarks while she was an assistant on the set of 2015 film “Le magician et le Siamois” (“The Magician and the Siamese”), she told regional newspaper Le Courrier de l’Ouest.

Depardieu already faces a rape charge, as well as claims of assault by more than a dozen women – all of which he has strongly denied.

“Never ever have I abused a woman,” Depardieu wrote in Le Figaro newspaper in October.

Police in 2020 charged Depardieu with rape and sexual assault after actor Charlotte Arnould alleged he raped her in 2018 when she was 22.

Another sexual assault complaint filed last year by actor Hélène Darras, who said Depardieu groped and propositioned her during a 2007 film shoot, has been dropped for being past the statute of limitations.

Spanish journalist and author Ruth Baza said in December she had filed a criminal complaint in Spain against Depardieu, claiming he raped her in 1995 in Paris.

Despite the events having passed the statute of limitations, she said she decided to file her complaint hoping it would “help other people” to do the same.

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