Véronique Genest was at the heart of a new controversy. Sunday, November 21, 2021, the actress known for having played the commissioner Julie Lescaut from 1992 to 2014 compared the vaccination obligation to a rape and “a turning point”. Words that caused a lot of reaction on social networks, including a former actress of Julie Lescaut, Leslie Coutterand, who accused her of having said “radicals and racists“daily on the set of the series. Invited in Do not touch My TV On November 23, 2021, the 65-year-old star responded to the criticism.
“Metaphors are always to react, not to shock. It’s to make people understand that a feeling is a feeling. In a metaphor, a rape can simply be an attack on his freedom, on his physical integrity.. There is a literary definition in Larousse“, first launched Véronique Genest. She then underlined that she wanted to denounce “the vaccine obligation”. “I am not against the vaccine. At all ! I am against the vaccine obligation. I am against the fact that we force you without saying it, and that we forbid people to complain and give their feelings. I am against that myself. I am not against the vaccine, I am vaccinated! And I’m gonna do that fucking third dose, if it’s gotta be. But I will do it because I want to do it“, she clarified.
A tweet that causes debate
Despite everything, his message was not unanimous on the set. Giles Verdez explained to her, at first in a very calm manner, that she could not equate the pain of a raped woman with that of feeling forced to have a vaccine. Annoyed, her interlocutor let it be known that she had simply “desecrated something“.”You backtrack on everything. You spend your time hitting people. You are terribly hypocritical this evening. You don’t even recognize what you’ve done. You said Madam, and that, I’m sorry, we don’t have the right, ‘if to be Islamophobic is to be afraid, I am Islamophobic like many French people.’ you say. But that is reprehensible Madam“, ended up indignant the columnist of 53 years.”But yes ! If you can read and you have a little wit, you will understand that … If ‘phobia’ means ‘fear’ then yes indeed I am Islamophobic because I am afraid“, replied Véronique Genest, who played on words according to Gilles Verdez.
Matthieu Delormeau then criticized him for systematically tweeting “to hurt“and to exist. After which, Cyril Hanouna recalled the accusations by Leslie Coutterand. “I decided to quit the show in 2013 for multiple personal reasons, but your daily racist and radical comments on set also motivated my decision. Reading this tweet this morning is no surprise. Comparing a health pass (for or against here is not the debate) to a rape is not only an intellectual stupidity but also a reflection of the lack of empathy and discernment that comes up regularly in your remarks“, wrote the one who played Mado in seasons 20 to 22. Du pure delirium according to Véronique Genest who intends to attack him for defamation. And, after assuring that she had always been adorable with her colleague, she clarified: “I was having a bad time in my life because I had family problems. Two people very close to me were very sick. I started to gain weight … But I was going to work and I was working. I called Jean-Charles Chagachbanian [qui interprétait Roland Guethary de 2008 à 2013, NDLR] and he told me he only had joking memories.“
As a reminder, last Sunday, Véronique Genest was indignant by posting: “With this vaccination obligation which does not say its name, I had the feeling of a rape of which we do not want to take the complaint. There with the third dose under penalty of losing my pass and not being able to work I have the impression of being the victim of a turning point.“