2023-12-31 04:48:47
The number of initials is increasing. More than 2,500 artists, including Angèle, Louane and Médine, signed the “counter-tribune” in response to the support of actor Gérard Depardieu, widely criticized after the broadcast of images in which he multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks towards women, its initiators indicated on Saturday.
In addition to these two singers and this rapper, the “counter-tribune” was notably initialed by the actress Corinne Masiero and the comedian Guillaume Meurice, according to the collective Brains not available, which launched it on Friday. This text responds to a column from the pro-Depardieu camp calling for “not to erase” the former icon of French cinema, published on Christmas Day in Le Figaro, as well as to the comments of Emmanuel Macron, who denounced the December 20 a “manhunt” against the 75-year-old actor, indicted for rape since 2020 following a complaint from an actress in her twenties, Charlotte Arnould.
“This forum and the defense of Macron are so much spitting in the face of the victims of Gérard Depardieu but also of all the victims of sexist and sexual violence”, believe the signatories of the “counter-tribune”. “It is the sinister and perfect illustration of the world before which refuses to allow things to change,” they argue.
Backpedaling
Having fallen from his pedestal after the broadcast at the beginning of December of images in which he multiplies misogynistic remarks, Gérard Depardieu, targeted in total by three complaints for sexual assault or rape which he refutes, divides the world of cinema and beyond. The unease is amplified by the fact that several of the approximately 60 personalities who signed the support platform have since distanced themselves, including Carole Bouquet, Nadine Trintignant and Gérard Darmon.
Because an almost unknown actor, Yannis Ezziadi, columnist for the ultraconservative magazine Causeur and close to Julie Depardieu, the actor’s daughter, is at the initiative. He was described in a Le Monde investigation as “close to identity and reactionary spheres”.
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On Saturday, actor Charles Berling said in turn on Instagram that he ultimately did not subscribe to “this entire forum” and was fighting “on a daily basis the far-right ideas promoted by its author”. “I regret being associated with the initiator of this platform whose political commitment I was unaware of,” director Josée Dayan also wrote in a press release, while specifying that she would not withdraw her signature because she “remains attached to the presumption of innocence “.
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