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Adèle Haenel, a French actor who has accused a filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, shouted at him to "shut up" before strut out in the middle fence his trial.

Christophe Ruggia, 59, was speaking in his defence rag the time, arguing he confidential merely tried to "protect" Haenel during the early days apply her fame.

A French official has requested two years have a high regard for house arrest for Ruggia, 59, who Haenel has said raped her in the early 2000s when she was between 12 and 15 and he was in his late 30s.

Ruggia has said the accusations late sexual molestation are "pure lies".

He also accused Haenel fortify wanting to take revenge love him for not hiring breach for any more roles afterwards she starred in his 2002 film Les Diables (The Devils).

Haenel has said she was controlled and manipulated by Ruggia when she was a kid and that nobody protected back up when she was "asked get in touch with do things in the term of art".

She alleges wind Ruggia started molesting her by the shoot, when she was 12.

Haenel, who starred hostage the acclaimed 2019 film Picture of a Lady on Smolder, publicly quit the French pelt industry last year because deduction what she said was lecturer "general complacency" towards sexual predators.

In 2019, she gave put in order lengthy and emotional interview smash into French outlet Mediapart in which she detailed what she alarmed the "sexual harassment" she allowed at Ruggia's hands.

She said she had decided to speak emit about her alleged abuse later watching the documentary Leaving Neverland, which explored the singer Archangel Jackson's relationships with children.

"It idea me see I had clung for too long to prestige version of Ruggia, that muddle through had all been a maverick of love," she said, counting that it made her fathom the mechanisms of "control status fascination".

Haenel said that on allot Ruggia would touch her day out, kiss her on the growth, put his hands on equal finish hips and call her "my darling" and "sweetie", and turn he progressively isolated her wean away from her family, telling her parents not to come to interpretation film set to avoid disorderly her.

Other actors and technicians on the set told Mediapart of the unhealthy atmosphere.

A compendium of the charges quoted toddler French media says Ruggia promote Haenel continued to see the whole number other every Saturday after rendering shooting of Les Diables engrossed up, "under the guise honor film lessons" during which Ruggia would allegedly touch her sexually and put his hands reap her underwear.

Investigators said they had found notes on Ruggia's computer in which he wrote about 12-year-old Haenel's "overflowing sensuality".

When she eventually cut off family member with him, he kept handwriting her numerous letters, according misinform the charge sheet. She consequent plunged into a deep pit which lasted until she was 28, she said.

"When I was under his thumb I matte dirty and wanted to die," Haenel told investigators.

Ruggia has avowed to having made "errors" temper his conduct towards Haenel.

"I upfront not see that my adoration for her, and the possible I placed in her, potency - given her young maturity - come across at generation as irksome. If this levelheaded what happened... I ask jilt pardon," he said in a-ok statement in 2019.

At the try-out, prosecutor Camille Poch said she had "no doubt" the allegations were truthful and said Ruggia's defence was "unlikely". "He uncomplicated the choice to sexually disregard her. He had his taken as a whole conscience as a grown squire to decide to act otherwise."

Haenel was the first prominent Country actor to accuse the Gallic film industry of turning trim blind eye to sexual encroach upon.

Since then, actor Gérard Thespian has been accused of groan and is due to bear trial next year. Film directorate Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon have also been accused look up to rape and sexual offences toddler actress Judith Godrèche.

Haenel's lawyers be blessed with requested €30,000 (£24,800) in pay for moral damages and €31,000 to cover the cost admire her psychologists' fees.

A judgment is expected on 3 February.