‘Don’t take anything for granted over the next day or so.’

‘We needed to put more and more pressure on.’

‘Too many people talk!’

Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver were among those paying tribute.

‘It’s just the type of goalkeeper!’

Nearly 60 French actors and other prominent figures have denounced the “lynching” of disgraced film legend Gerard Depardieu, who is charged with rape and is facing a litany of other sexual assault claims. FRANCE 24 Reporter Clovis Casali said the signatories included, “actresses like Carole Bouquet, Charlotte Rampling; singers Carla Bruni, Jacques Dutronc; many of them long-time friends of Gerard Depardieu”. Casali added: “it’s not the young generations, it’s more the old guard, if I may.”