Italian authorities have detained Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, according to the Associated Press, quoting Italian news media via local prosecutors.Haggis, 69, won s 2006 screenwriting Oscar for Crash.
He was visiting Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, located in the “heel” of the Italian peninsula.The news agency LaPresse and several other Italian media reported on the alleged incident.
They quoted a written statement from prosecutors in the nearby city of Brindisi that a “young foreign woman” was forced to have “non-consensual” sexual relations over two days.Prosecutors said the woman was “forced to seek medical care” following the sexual relations.
After a couple of days “of non-consensual relations, the woman was accompanied by the man” to Brindisi airport on Sunday. She subsequently “was left there at dawn, despite (her) precarious physical and psychological conditions.”Haggis’s attorney didn’t immediately respond to an AP request for comment.Prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando said airport staff and police noticed the woman’s “obvious confused state” and ”and after lending initial treatment, took her to Brindisi’s police headquarters, where officers accompanied her to a local hospital for examination.No information was available on where Haggis was being detained.The woman “formalized her complaint and cited circumstances which were subsequently looked into for confirmation by investigators.”Haggis spent more than 20 years in television, before moving into feature films.
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