The president affirmed Wednesday on France 5 in “C à vous” that the Legion of Honor is an Order which is “not there to preach morality”, while denouncing “a manhunt” against the actor Gérard Depardieu.
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Emmanuel Macron “doesn’t see the dishonor, he doesn’t see the infamy, he doesn’t see the major political problem with a man who makes pedocriminal comments about little girls who go horse riding”denounces Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, Paris councilor and feminist activist on franceinfo after Emmanuel Macron’s comments in the show “C à vous” on France 5 on Gérard Depardieu.
“I am a great admirer of Gérard Depardieu […] One thing you’ll never see me in is manhunts. I hate that”declared the Head of State in particular, following the broadcast of the program “Complement d’investigation” on the French film star. “The head of state is wrong”, she emphasizes. Emmanuel Macron is “a moral figure who must represent this possibility of protection for all French men and women”.
“You have to have a little courage and consistency”
The Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, announced on December 16 the launch of a procedure which could remove Gérard Depardieu, indicted for rape, from this title. It is “an order which is not there to preach morality”hammered out Emmanuel Macron in “C à vous”. “You have to have a little courage and consistency”evokes Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu. “The Legion of Honor is actually a very moral Order.”
“We talk about honor, what we find honorable, what is intended to be celebrated in our country in terms of values, models […] Gérard Depardieu cannot be a model today.”
Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, Paris councilor and feminist activistat franceinfo
According to Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, it is necessary “accept to confront this figure that Gérard Depardieu was otherwise we are telling all the women and all the girls in this country that all the insults, the insults, all the contempt, all the sexist and sexual attacks that ‘they suffer that will never be worth the so-called talent, the so-called fame of a man’.