The woman, who according to the Negro’s office holds a British passport, was released last Wednesday before dawn by the director outside Brindisi airport in the province of Puglia, which is in the heel of the Italian boot, according to the testimony. to the police. He says he did not have a plane ticket, but that he gave her money to buy it when he opened the airport, according to the prosecution. The prosecutor’s office says the woman was found crouching in a corner of the small airport by a flight attendant who immediately notified authorities. “It was destroyed,” the escort told police, according to the original investigation document. “He spoke with difficulty.” After an initial medical examination at the airport health clinic, he was taken to hospital for treatment according to Italy’s “pink protocol” for rape victims, which includes psychological counseling. The prosecutor’s office says he “suffered repeated sexual assaults without consent”, including one so violent that he was “forced to seek medical help”. This horrific event is obviously what led to the end of her ordeal, when she says that Haggis drove her to the airport in the early hours of Wednesday. The medical examiner’s report says he was unable to have sex by force. The prosecutor’s office says that after he was incapacitated, he drove her alone to the airport from the tourist town of Ostuni about an hour away, where the 69-year-old – who has been accused of sexual harassment by four other women – was on the front page. the Allora Fest with Oliver Stone, Matt Dillon, Edward Norton and Marisa Tomei. The music and film festival was immediately ousted by Haggis, canceling all events he was to attend. Police then investigated the new allegations, watching camera footage outside Haggis’s hotel room and the airport allegedly proving she was with him. They then waited until the woman left Italy safely to arrest the director on Sunday in Ostuni. His family had already come with him. He is being held in the capital of the province of Brindisi, where he will face the corresponding Italian trial on Monday or Tuesday. Haggis’s lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, declined to comment to The Hollywood Reporter, citing a non-existent “law” that says it prohibits her from commenting on ongoing cases. “Having said that, I’m sure all charges against Mr. Haggis will be dropped,” Chondry said in an email to the agency. “He is completely innocent and willing to cooperate fully with the authorities so that the truth can come out quickly.” Haggis wrote two Academy Awards for Best Picture with Million Dollar Baby in 2014 and Crash in 2005. This is not the first time the Canadian director has had legal problems. An ongoing civil lawsuit accusing him of violence was filed against him by journalist Haleigh Breest in 2017. Three more women appeared a year later saying he had sexually abused them. He denies all charges. Haggis, who left the Church of Scientology in 2009, argued that allegations of sexual abuse were merely retaliation by the church. His accusers deny this allegation.
