Prosecutors in Brindisi on Sunday announced that Haggis had been detained by police after a young woman told authorities he had sex with her without her consent for two days
Under Italian law a judge, after hearing arguments from both prosecutors and defense lawyers, will rule on whether Haggis can be set free pending possible additional investigation. A judge can also decide if there is a flight risk, or the possibility of tampering with evidence or committing the same alleged crime and order him to be jailed or stay under house arrest.
The statement also said that the woman was “forced to seek medical care," The prosecutors added that after a couple of days of non-consensual relations, the woman was accompanied" by Haggis to Brindisi airport and “was left there at dawn despite precarious physical and psychological conditions.” Haggis is a director, producer and screenwriter. He won an Oscar in 2006 for best original screenplay for"Crash."four women in the United StatesAfter a civil lawsuit, filed in New York in late 2017, alleging that he had raped a publicist, three other women came forward with their own sexual misconduct accusations, including another publicist who said he forced her to perform oral sex, then raped her.
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