The head of the list of the far-right Reconquest party in the European elections accused the festival of having given the prize for female interpretation to “a man”.
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A reaction that does not pass. Six associations defending LGBT+ rights announced to AFP that they had filed a complaint on Monday May 27 for “transphobic insult” against Marion Maréchal, head of the European list for Reconquête, after comments targeting the award-winning transgender actress at the Cannes Film Festival, Karla Sofia Gascon.
This Spanish actress received, with the Americans Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana as well as the Mexican Adriana Paz, a joint actress prize on Saturday at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for the film Emilia Perez by director Jacques Audiard.
In reaction, Marion Maréchal wrote on Sunday morning on the social network X: “It is therefore a man who receives the prize for… feminine interpretation at Cannes. Progress for the left is the erasure of women and mothers”.
In a joint press release, the associations Mousse, Stop Homophobia, Familles LGBT, Adheos, Quazar and Fédération LBGTI+ announced their filing of a complaint on Monday in Paris for “insulting based on gender identity”. According to Me Etienne Deshoulières, association lawyer, “Marion Maréchal’s comments deny the very existence of transgender people, as well as the violence and discrimination to which these people are victims on a daily basis”.
