‘We hope that this trial will be a landmark case, so that people understand that abusing a woman whom they dominate through physical force is a scandal and that no one is immune from the law’: activists outside a Paris court share their thoughts on legendary French actor Gérard Depardieu, at the start of his trial for sexual assault. "This is a historic trial, a historic moment for women, for women's rights," added Florence Moreno, historian and activist. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES