Oscar-winner Paul Haggis released from house arrest in Italy, lawyer says

Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis arrives for a listening to to be questioned by a decide after he was positioned underneath home arrest on expenses of sexual assault and aggravated private harm, in Brindisi, Italy June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photograph

MILAN, July 4 (Reuters) – An Italian decide on Monday dominated that Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis ought to be launched from home arrest whereas authorities proceed to research allegations that he raped a girl, his lawyer advised Reuters.

“Our request to revoke home arrest was accepted by the decide with out additional measures, so Mr. Haggis is free,” stated Michele Laforgia, his lawyer, including that he nonetheless didn’t know if his consumer needed to go away Italy.

Haggis was arrested on June 19 after a British lady accused him of raping her over a two-day interval within the southern Italian city of Ostuni, the place he was educating at a movie occasion. learn extra

He denied the allegations throughout an preliminary face-to-face listening to together with his accuser final week. “Paul Haggis defined the info and what occurred, and he declared himself fully harmless,” Laforgia had advised reporters after the listening to.

Laforgia stated intercourse between his consumer and the girl was “completely consensual” in the course of the three days they spent collectively, and he or she had no indicators of harm or violence as had been alleged by the prosecution.

The 28-year-old lady gave a really completely different model of occasions in the course of the listening to, repeating the accusations in opposition to Haggis, her lawyer, Claudio Strata, advised reporters on the time.

Haggis, 69, wrote “Million Greenback Child” and co-wrote and directed “Crash,” a criminal offense drama for which he received two Oscars.

Reporting by Emilio Parodi
Enhancing by Paul Simao

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