A lawyer for nine women accusing the founder of the Just for Laughs comedy festival of sexual assault said it’s impossible his clients are all lying about what happened to them.

Bruce Johnston made the comments in a Montreal courtroom on Monday in his closing arguments in the civil trial of Gilbert Rozon.

Rozon has claimed that the women have formed a coalition against him with the aim of getting rich, an assertion Johnston says is incomprehensible.

While only nine women are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, a total of 16 women “came forward to say they had been raped or assaulted” by him throughout the course of the civil trial, Johnston told the court. Their testimony was “corroborated by relatives or therapists that these women confided in.”

Rozon, 70, claims he had consensual relations wi

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