Two young women, bare breasts, claiming to be Femen demonstrated Sunday morning in front of the town hall of Oyonnax (Ain) by banging on saucepans to demand the “resignation” of the Minister of Solidarity Damien Abad, implicated for sexual violence, we learned from concordant sources. The presence of the two demonstrators around 9 a.m. in front of the town hall, which acts as a polling station on Sunday for the legislative elections, was “very fast”, according to a police source and the vote of Damien Abad, in a school in Oyonnax, about two hours later, was not disturbed, according to AFP on the spot.
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Banging on pots, the two young women chanted “Abad resign” and “Abad, if you don’t take your pots out, we’ll take care of it”, as shown in a video posted on Twitter by the feminist movement Femen.
The minister was implicated the day after his appointment to the government for sexual violence and targeted between the two rounds of the legislative elections by new accusations from a woman who told Mediapart that she had suffered an attempted rape in 2010. He denies all the charges which have not yet given rise to any new judicial investigation.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne invited women victims of sexual violence to file a complaint during a campaign trip this week.
Mr. Abad, a former LR who rallied to the macronie before his appointment to the government, is seeking a third term as a deputy in the 5th constituency of Ain. He came out of the first round in a favorable ballot, with 33.38% of the vote, against 23.54% for the Nupes candidate Florence Pisani.