BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — A pass judgement on in southern Italy on Wednesday ordered Academy Award-winning movie director Paul Haggis to stay underneath detention at his lodge whilst Italian prosecutors proceed to analyze a lady’s allegations that he had intercourse together with her over two days with out her consent, Italian information experiences mentioned.
After undertaking a listening to that lasted a number of hours within the Brindisi courthouse, Pass judgement on Vilma Gilli issued the ruling that extends his detention for now within the lodge within the the town of Ostuni, the place he was once meant to take part in an arts competition this week, Corriere della Sera day-to-day reported.
Calls Wednesday night to Villi’s place of job went unanswered.
The Ansa and LaPresse information companies mentioned Villi had concluded that whilst the 69-year-old Haggis, who lives in the US, isn’t a flight chance, there was once the “risk” proof might be compromised or that the alleged crime might be repeated.
Haggis’ attorney, Michele Laforgia, mentioned after the listening to that his shopper reiterated his overall innocence and is in “hopeful expectation” that he’ll be in the end vindicated.
“Paul Haggis responded all questions and defined what took place,” Laforgia instructed journalists outdoor the courthouse. “He declared himself, as he had already executed proper after the detention, totally blameless, within the sense that the intercourse he had with this girl was once utterly consensual.”
Whilst the lady’s allegations are investigated, the 69-year-old Canadian-born director, manufacturer and screenwriter was once to begin with ordered on Sunday to stick detained in his visitor place of dwelling in a farmhouse in Ostuni, a well-liked vacationer the town in Puglia, the area forming the “heel” of the Italian peninsula.
Prosecutors have mentioned he’s underneath investigation for alleged irritated sexual violence and irritated non-public accidents.
Prosecutors have described the lady as younger and overseas. State TV and different Italian media mentioned she is a 30-year-old Englishwoman who had identified Haggis sooner than he got here to Ostuni to take part in an arts competition that started this week.
Haggis co-wrote, directed and produced “Crash,” which gained the 2006 Academy Awards for absolute best image and absolute best screenplay. He additionally wrote the screenplay for “Million Greenback Child,” every other Oscar winner.
He has had felony issues lately stemming from sexual misconduct accusations by way of 4 girls in the US.
