2023-05-28 04:33:25
Impeded access, chanted slogans during the performance: a concert of Gérard Depardieu was disturbed on Saturday evening in Lyon by women’s collectives wishing to draw attention to the accusations of sexist and sexual violence against the actor.
“These are poor children led by the nose”
“The black eagle, it’s you!” Shame! “: in the middle of the Lyon concert of the tour ” Depardieu sings Barbara”, five activists present in the audience suddenly burst in front of the stage shouting, with pig masks on their faces, before being pushed outside by security, noted an AFP journalist. .
“They follow the masses, they are poor children led by the nose,” then commented the 74-year-old actor to the applause of some 1,400 people present at the Labor Exchange.
In a press release, these activists from the Amazones Paris and Lyon collectives declared “refusing to let men accused of physical and sexual assault perform quietly on stage”.
Before the concert, a hundred activists – and a few activists – from various women’s collectives had gathered in front of the hall located not far from the center of Lyon, to chant various slogans castigating “the aggressor” Depardieu and his “accomplice public”. The spectators were however able to enter without incident, the entrance to the building having been secured by a dozen police officers.
13 new testimonies of gender-based and sexual violence
Since the end of April, several performances of the actor have already been agitated by demonstrators, in particular in Lille on April 28, then this week in Bordeaux and Toulouse.
These disturbances come in the wake of recent revelations by Médiapart of 13 new testimonies of gender-based and sexual violence which would have been committed by the actor on eleven shoots between 2004 and 2022.
The actor is also under indictment for suspicion of rape and sexual assault on actress Charlotte Arnould. The next performance of the “Depardieu sings Barbara” tour is scheduled for June 10 in Tours.
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