Paul Haggis returns free, director was accused of sexual assault

The investigating judge of the Brindisi court Vilma Gilli has accepted the request, presented by the defense, to revoke the house arrest of the 69-year-old Oscar winner Canadian director Paul Haggis is back free. The investigating judge of the Brindisi court Vilma Gilli accepted the request, presented by the defense, to revoke the house arrest of the 69-year-old, subjected to arrest as a crime suspect last June 19 with accusations of aggravated sexual violence and aggravated personal injury on a 28-year-old English woman who would have taken place, for three consecutive days, in a B&B in Ostuni where the filmmaker was attending a festival. The Oscar winner had defended himself in the interrogation for the validation of the arrest by talking about consensual relations. The arrest had not been validated but a house arrest order had been issued against him. The long probative incident of last June 29, which took place in the court of the Apulian city during which the alleged victim was heard by the investigating judge, would have proved decisive.