2023-05-09 07:43:04
The man arrested on Sunday after the degradation of a controversial painting at the Palais de Tokyo is a former elected member of the National Front, Le Parisien learned on Monday, confirming information from the Mondewhile the Minister of Culture points to the responsibility of the National Rally.
This is Pierre Chassin, former leader of the National Front group on the municipal council of Les Mureaux (Yvelines). He is accused of having projected paint on the work “Fuck abstraction! by Swiss artist Miriam Cahn, accused of child pornography by her detractors.
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation for degradation of exposed cultural property, after the arrest of the octogenarian.
The Ministry of Culture challenges the RN
Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak, who had already denounced Sunday “the instrumentalization” of this affair by the National Rally, took the opportunity Monday to challenge Marine Le Pen on Twitter.
“A former FN elected official attacks the work of Miriam Cahn after your party’s smear campaign”, launched the minister who had been questioned on the subject by RN deputy Caroline Parmentier in March.
“And while justice has recognized that this painting, which denounces the horrors of war, can be exhibited. Decidedly (…), nothing has changed since the National Front! “, she was indignant.
“I condemn all degradations wherever they come from,” Caroline Parmentier replied on Twitter on Sunday, in reference to the questioning of her party by the Minister of Culture. “But freedom of expression is also that of the representatives of the Nation to express their indignation in the face of works clearly representing a scene of pedocrime. Without being defamed by a minister…”, she added.
A work at the heart of the controversy since mid-February
Exhibited in the Parisian contemporary art center since mid-February, the painting depicts a frail person with tied hands, forced into oral sex by a powerful faceless man. For his detractors, the victim is a child, which the artist denies, invoking the representation of rape as a weapon of war and a crime against humanity.
The associations Lawyers for Childhood, Childhood in Sharing, Facing Incest and Innocence in Danger, considering child pornography, demanded its removal but were dismissed in the spring by the Paris Administrative Court, then by the Council of ‘State.
The Juristes pour l’Enfance association indicated that they had discovered the degradation. “Children’s lawyers and other associations (have) acted as we always do, by taking legal action, writing to officials and informing the public,” she said.
For its part, the Palais de Tokyo, which has announced that it will file a complaint, will continue, “in agreement with the artist”, to “present the painting and the exhibition” visited by 80,000 people “with the traces of degradation until at the scheduled end of the season on May 14.
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