In a column published by “Le Monde”, fourteen women respond to the Head of State who declared at the beginning of December that he did not want “a society of the Inquisition”.
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“How do our stories relate to the Inquisition?” In a column published Wednesday, December 8 in The world (paid item), fourteen women who implicated Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and Nicolas Hulot for acts of harassment, sexual assault and rape, take up the pen to denounce recent remarks by Emmanuel Macron.
Wednesday, December 1, during the Council of Ministers, Emmanuel Macron reacted after the accusations of several women targeting his former Minister of the Ecological Transition. “We will never accept a society of opacity or complacency. And neither do we want a society of inquisition.”, said the head of state in particular.
This reference to the Inquisition does not pass. “You put us on the side of the inquisitors, hated figures of collective memory, representatives of the worst atrocities of the past. Our stories would germinate these tribunals of horror and injustice “, denounce the signatories.
“We have spoken our most intimate shames, exposed our swallowed tears, explained our imposed silences or our neglected accounts. These testimonies were, for many of us, difficult and expensive”, they continue.
“We have nothing else to gain than to tell the truth, however disturbing, and to enlighten the country on the treatment of sexual violence, on the use that certain men make of their power, on the complacency which authorize it, on the impunity they enjoy. “
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They regret that Emmanuel Macron agitates “the inquisitorial threat” and put so “one more piece in the silencing machine”. “We are not the executioners, Mr. President of the Republic. Why are we so afraid?” they conclude.