the mayor denounces “feminist extremism”

“It’s feminist extremism”is indignant, Tuesday May 7 at the microphone of France Bleu Lorraine Nord, François Grosdidier, mayor of Metz, after the table The origin of the world was sprayed with red paint on Monday at the Center Pompidou-Metz (Moselle). The words “Me too” were written on the glass which protects the work of Gustave Courbet. In total, five works were tagged during this happening organized by the Franco-Luxembourgish performance artist Deborah de Robertis. This action is singled out by the mayor of the city, who accuses the activists of defending “with a fairly staggering degree of fanaticism and extremism” their cause.

François Grosdidier considers that with this type of action, “certain political, philosophical, ecological or other causes are completely misguided by this increasingly unbridled, uninhibited form of fanaticism”. “We are doing our utmost to open minds, and we have people who claim to be open and who demonstrate this completely to the contrary, ultimately joining the Taliban, the religious obscurantists in the same fanaticism,” adds the chosen one.