Director Paul Haggis detained in Italy in sex assault case, reports say

The Canadian-born, Oscar-winning Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a movie pageant that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a vacationer city in Puglia, the area that varieties the “heel” of the Italian peninsula.

The information company LaPresse and several other different Italian media carried a written assertion from prosecutors within the close by metropolis of Brindisi that they had been investigating allegations a “younger international lady” was compelled to have “non-consensual” sexual relations over two days.

Prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando, who’re conducting the investigation, stated within the assertion that the girl was “compelled to hunt medical care” following the sexual relations. After a few days “of non-consensual relations, the girl was accompanied by the person” to Brindisi airport on Sunday and “was left there at daybreak regardless of (her) precarious bodily and psychological circumstances.”

The Brindisi prosecutors’ workplace was closed on Sunday. Haggis’s legal professional did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

The prosecutors stated airport workers and police seen her “apparent confused state” and ” and after lending preliminary therapy, took her to Brindisi’s police headquarters, the place officers accompanied her to an area hospital for examination.

Police at headquarters’ operations room stated they weren’t approved to offer out details about the case, together with whether or not Haggis was being held on the police station or at a lodge or different lodging.

Haggis is a director, producer and screenwriter. He gained an Oscar in 2006 for finest unique screenplay for “Crash.”

Prosecutors additionally had been quoted as saying that the girl “formalized her grievance and cited circumstances which had been subsequently seemed into for affirmation by investigators.” They did not cite her nationality or age.