Several women walked out of France's film academy as it presented its version of the Oscars on Friday where director Roman Polanski's latest film is up for the most awards.
A few hundred protesters brandishing signs with phrases such as “Victims, we believe you” and “No to impunity" assembled outside the Salle Pleyel hall before the ceremony started.
In a statement this week, the Paris-based Polanski, 86, said the ceremony was turning into a “public lynching" and that he decided not to attend the ceremony to protect his colleagues and his wife and children. Last year, a woman came forward to accuse Polanski of raping her in 1975 in his Swiss chalet when she was 18. Polanski denied it, and the allegations are too old for an investigation.
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