VIDEO. When Sandrine Rousseau is booed during a demonstration in support of Iranian women

An elected feminist shouted down during a rally in support of women, this is surprising… This is what happened to Sandrine Rousseau, during a Parisian demonstration, in October 2022. On the Place de la Republique, the elected ecologist takes the rostrum to express his support for Iranian women. After the death of Mahsa Amini, a student arrested by the morality police for “non-respect of the dress code of the Islamic Republic”, many of them tear off their veils and cut their hair to protest against the regime.

Barely Sandrine Rousseau takes the floor that her speech is covered by boos. In the crowd, an insult explodes: “Collaborate!” Hala Oukili was one of those who gave him this welcome. “VS‘was a little the least of things, for this feminist activist, because it had already been some time since it was illustrated by rather strange declarations (…).” She criticizes Sandrine Rousseau for holding “the discourse of intersectional feminism, which would like veiling to be a choice and a freedom…”. And like many activists, she does not forgive him a little sentence pronounced on a TV set a few months earlier on “veils that are just an embellishment“.

When Sandrine Rousseau maintains a story contradicted by images

But more than on this controversy, it is on the sequence which immediately followed this stormy demonstration that “Complement of the investigation” returns, in a portrait of “Sandrine Rousseau, in green and against all”, to see April 13, 2023 .

The next day, guest on France Inter, Sandrine Rousseau asserts that the other two left-wing speakers, Manon Aubry and Laurence Rossignol, were whistled like her. But it is immediately contradicted by the host Nicolas Demorand, because Laurence Rossignol herself has just reacted on Twitter.

And the socialist senator to attach to her message the proof in pictures: the video of her intervention, which she posted just before on the social network. We can see that far from being whistled, Laurence Rossignol is applauded.

How to explain that Sandrine Rousseau continues to maintain her version despite the images? For Hala Oukili, perhaps by a “need to justify what must have deeply shocked her. It would mean that she has to question herself. And she doesn’t like to question herself…”

Extract from “Sandrine Rousseau, in green and against all”, a portrait to see in “Complément d’Enquête” on April 13, 2023.

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