France to review actor Depardieu's Legion d'Honneur medal following allegations


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  • Saturday, 16 Dec 2023

French actor Gerard Depardieu talks on a mobile phone while sitting in a helicopter after visiting Cetinje January 8, 2013. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic/File photo

PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu's Legion d'Honneur medal is under review following a string of allegations about sexual aggression and a TV documentary in which he was heard making lewd comments about women.

French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak said on France 5 television she had asked the "grande chancellerie" committee in charge of the Legion d'Honneur - France's highest decoration - to start a disciplinary procedure to review whether the medal should be suspended or withdrawn.

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