By Alexandria Sage
PARIS Tue Jan 8, 2013 8:16am EST
PARIS (Reuters) - French picture celebrity Gerard Depardieu did not display within court docket to handle drink driving charges on Tuesday because he or she seemed to be setting up to experience disgraced ex - IMF fundamental Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a film, his attorney at law said.
The no-show usually means the situation will probably turn into the complete sample - guaranteeing just another day time inside the spotlight for that garrulous actor or actress presently involved in a very scandal more than his taxes status.
It may possibly as well produce the actual rotund, 64-year-old star of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and also "Asterix as well as Obelix" enjoying a tougher word in case convicted - the theory is that approximately couple of years around prison.
"Despite looking being there and fulfill the judges and in no way to evade justice, Gerard Depardieu completely couldn't always be present," his attorney Eric de Caumont instructed a throng of reporters outdoor the Paris courtroom.
He said his / her buyer is at Montenegro preparing to experience Strauss-Kahn, which ended up being observed as the following Socialist leader connected with France in advance of a U.S. intimacy scandal ordered straight down his profession continue year.
Depardieu is accused associated with crashing his / her kid scooter in Paris by using over three times the lawful confine connected with drinking with his or her blood. No one particular other than them appeared to be injured within the accident.
The actor could not ought to attend that judge hearing. But he or she may have faced a a great deal lighter in weight sentence, probably even a little fine, when he or she have attended Tuesday's preparatory hearing in addition to admitted his guilt.
As section of some sort of larger crackdown on drink driving, French magistrates have imposed progressively difficult paragraphs around cases that look at whole trial.
Depardieu hit this head lines previous four week period following your dog bought a family house on the boundary throughout Belgium, spurring accusations they appeared to be striving in order to avoid a suggested innovative levy on millionaires.
Last week, he or she acknowledged a Russian passport, provoking also fiercer expenses which he / she acquired abandoned his homeland.
Depardieu on Monday refused they has been giving France pertaining to tax reasons, insisting in which he or she continued to be French.
A few months leading to a moped incident, a vehicle drivers charged Depardieu of attack in addition to power during an altercation in Paris. Last year, the acting professional annoyed individuals with a great Air France flight simply by urinating suitable bottle inside aisle.
(Additional confirming simply by Thierry Leveque and also Arnd Wiegmann in Zurich. Writing by means of Alexandria Sage along with Leigh Thomas; Editing by way of Mark John plus Andrew Heavens)
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