“A French MeToo”… Laure Calamy salutes the “courage” of Gérard Depardieu’s victims

2024-01-02 18:32:33

A fight of generations. No less than 70 personalities from the world of cinema signed “Address to the old world” on December 31, 2023, a column published on Mediapart in response to the letter of support for Gérard Depardieu published a few days earlier in Le Figaro.

Among the signatories of this new forum is Laure Calamy, who spoke in more detail on this subject on France Inter this Tuesday. “It’s a French MeToo that is happening,” commented the actress about all the controversy surrounding Gérard Depardieu, targeted by three complaints for rape and sexual assault and accused of violence by 14 women at total.

Laure Calamy on the Depardieu affair: “When we see how difficult it is to file a complaint, especially in the face of a powerful man, the President of the Republic’s statements are a snub in the face of the courage these women have to file a complaint .” #le69Inter pic.twitter.com/LoA1TE3ka7

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Salute the courage of the victims

Certain that “justice will do its job”, Laure Calamy nevertheless wanted to provide support to the victims and denounce those who, in her eyes, legitimized “the indignity [des] behaviors” by Gérard Depardieu. “It’s important to come together, to support this speaking out, this courage of women,” she declared.

It notably targeted the President of the Republic in C to you on December 20, who said he was a “great admirer” of the actor, described as a “genius of his art,” and invoked the presumption of innocence. “When we see how difficult it is to file a complaint, especially in the face of a powerful man, the statements made by the President of the Republic are a snub in the face of the courage these women have to file a complaint,” said Laure Calamy. .

For her part, she therefore wanted to emphasize the “courage” of the women who filed a complaint and “overcame the fear and shame that we experience when we are victims of rape”. In addition to this column of which the actress is a signatory, a first counter-tribunal was published on December 27 by the MeTooMedia collective in The world. Addressed directly to Emmanuel Macron, it already criticized the comments made by the President on December 27.