France’s first big #MeToo case: Film director Christophe Ruggia found guilty of sexually abusing actress Adele Haenel

Paris: A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adele Haenel when she was underage and handed him a four-year sentence, two of which are suspended.

In one of the first #MeToo cases to emerge in the French cinema, Haenel, a prize-winning actress in movies such as "Portrait of a Lady On Fire", had accused Ruggia of repeatedly touching her inappropriately after they met while working on the movie "The Devils" in 2001, when she was 12 and he was 36.