A French court docket convicted the director Christophe Ruggia on Monday of sexually assaulting the actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor, handing him a four-year sentence — two years beneath home arrest and the remaining suspended.
It was the first main case to look at an accusation of sexual misconduct in French cinema because the #MeToo motion, which emerged in 2017 and was met with a extreme backlash in France.
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