Overview
- At the resumed hearing on January 23, Adèle Haenel gave emotional testimony describing lasting shame and trauma from assaults she says occurred when she was 12 to 14.
- The avocat général, Alexis Bouroz, requested a five-year sentence for Christophe Ruggia, including three years to be served in prison, seeking what he called real incarceration.
- Ruggia, 61, firmly denied the allegations in court and characterized Haenel’s account as a later reconstruction of events.
- In February in first instance, Ruggia was convicted and sentenced to four years, with two years to be served under electronic monitoring, a judgment he appealed.
- The case concerns alleged repeated, non‑consensual caresses during weekly visits to Ruggia’s Paris home between 2001 and 2004, first revealed publicly by a 2019 Mediapart investigation.