Paul Haggis detained in Italy in sex assault case: report
19.06.2022 - 22:49
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Academy Award-winning film director Paul Haggis was detained in Italy on Sunday under investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors. Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, the region that forms the "heel" of the Italian peninsula.
The news agency LaPresse, and several other Italian media, carried a written statement from prosecutors in the nearby city of Brindisi that they were investigating allegations a "young foreign woman" was forced to have "non-consensual" sexual relations over two days. Prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando, who are conducting the investigation, said in the statement that the woman was "forced to seek medical care" following the sexual relations. Paul Haggis attends the 19th Monte-Carlo Film Festival De La Comedie at Grimaldi Forum on April 30, 2022 in Monaco, Monaco.
(Daniele Venturelli) After a couple of days "of non-consensual relations, the woman was accompanied by the man" to Brindisi airport on Sunday and "was left there at dawn despite (her) precarious physical and psychological conditions." The Brindisi prosecutors' office was closed on Sunday. Haggis’s attorney didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Prosecutors said airport staff and police noticed her "obvious confused state" and after lending initial treatment, took her to Brindisi's police headquarters, where officers accompanied her to a local hospital for examination. Authorities said they weren't authorized to give out information about the case, including whether Haggis was being held at the police station or at a hotel or other lodging.
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