Film director guilty of sexual assault in France’s first big MeToo trial

Christophe Ruggia was found guilty of sexual assault (AP)

A Paris court has found a filmmaker guilty of sexually assaulting French actress Adele Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big MeToo trial.

Christophe Ruggia was sentenced to two years under house arrest with an electronic bracelet plus a two-year suspended sentence.