Emmanuel Macron’s support shocks

The President of the Republic returned to the case of Gérard Depardieu in the show C à vous on December 20. “I am a great admirer of Gérard Depardieu“, he said, before driving the point home: “It is not on the basis of a report or this or that thing that we remove the Legion of Honor from an artist.“A position at odds with that of the Ministry of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, who promised that a procedure would be initiated by the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honor against the actor.

Reactions from politicians and feminists

François Hollande took the opposite view at the microphone of France Inter on December 21, getting annoyed at the lack of support for the victims. “I’m going to talk to you about the women upset by the images they saw, I’m going to talk to you about all these women who see through Gérard Depardieu what violence, domination can be.“

For feminist associations too, it is a very bad signal sent to victims. “It shocks me (…) it is still the great cause for the second time in Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term, and ultimately even respect for the most basic law is not yet acquired“, deplores Sophie Truchot-barret, founder of the collective “Why de feminism” at the microphone of France info. Gérard Depardieu is currently the target of two complaints for rape and sexual assault.