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During a gathering on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Women, Place Saint-Michel, in Paris, November 25, 2020. AMAURY CORNU / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
“Paris Town Hall, welcome to Pedoland”, “No deputy for rape culture”, “… support of a notorious child molester”, “Girard to culture? HLM, prices, pensions, honor for paedos »…
For having published or republished in July 2020 on Twitter (now elected ecologists of the Council of Paris, Alice Coffin and Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, the former president of the association Dare feminism!, Céline Piques, the psychologist Alix Béranger, member of the La Barbe collective, the activist Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and LGBTQIA Morgan Jasienski and journalist Coline Clavaud-Mégevand were prosecuted by Christophe Girard, Thursday March 14 and Friday March 15, before the 17th criminal chamber of the Paris court of justice. Reason: defamation or insult of a citizen entrusted with a public mandate.
The case is being played out in this year 2020 which – as Alix Béranger reminded the court – was “loaded”. In January it appeared The consent (Grasset), by Vanessa Springora. In February, Adèle Haenel and Céline Sciamma left the Césars screaming ” Shame ! Shame ! » to denounce the awarding of the best director prize to Roman Polanski. In March the municipal elections arrived.
In Paris, left-wing elected officials encourage this young guard of activists who feel themselves growing wings to enter politics. Alice Coffin and Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu are thus elected to the Council under the environmentalist banner. At the same time, the Matzneff affair agitated the editorial staff. We discover that the writer, openly pedophile, has a consummate art in being adopted by the literary and worldly elite. In fact, he likes nothing more than telling it. Among his protectors – only journalists from Mediapart and the French edition of New York Times say they flush out –, Christophe Girard.
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Long salesman at Yves Saint Laurent, then private secretary of Pierre Bergé (former individual shareholder of Monde, died in 2017), who gave him a taste for the arts and artists, Christophe Girard was elected in 2001, in the wheel of Bertrand Delanoë, to Paris City Hall. Self-confessed homosexual, faithful in friendship, to you and to you with the whole of Paris, the man is a powerful assistant to culture. Here he is pointed out.
Didn’t Gabriel Matzneff autograph one of his books to him, The Apple of my eye (Gallimard, 1993)? Don’t he call her ” Very expensive ” in certain passages of his books where he takes up emails that the councilor wrote to him? Christophe Girard, the journalists explain, would be the one who provided the writer the hotel room where Vanessa Springora says she accompanied Matzneff when she was only 14 years old.
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