As criticized as the man they wanted to defend, the signatories of the platform in support of Gérard Depardieu
published on December 25, 2023 on the website of Figaro, are having complicated days. Indeed, the posting of this “petition” online, Victoria Abril,
Yvan Attal,
or even Carla Bruni are in the sights of detractors of the sacred monster of French cinema. The latter failing to understand how the 75-year-old actor could be defended since his indictment in 2020 for rape and sexual assault and the broadcast of the Further investigation which was dedicated to him on December 7.
Because the presumption of innocence exists and many of the signatories of the platform wanted to remind us of this. This Thursday, December 28, 2023, it is the companion of Charlotte Gainsbourg, guest on the set of BFMTV
, who gave his reasons. He specifies that the platform, in itself, still disturbed him on certain points. “If I’m here it’s because I feel unwell. I too feel unwell. I feel uneasy because I signed this petition which doesn’t completely suit me”he admitted on the set of our colleagues.
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Yvan Attal supported Gérard Depardieu because he is an “ordinary citizen”
However, if Yvan Attal finally signed it, it is because there is “too many things wrong”. “This man, before being an actor, he is an ordinary citizen and we reserve a fate for him which is not a fate that we would reserve for an ordinary citizen because he is a sacred monster”, he continues to support his arguments. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s companion assures him, he doesn’t care at all that Gérard Depardieu whether a sacred monster or not.
“There’s also no question of saying that I don’t have admiration for him”he nuances before recalling, sacred monster or not, that the 75-year-old actor has “the right not to be publicly lynched for months and months.” “It’s in the newspapers every day. And it is precisely because there is an instruction that we must let justice speak. And what drives me crazy is that because of his status, because he is the holy monster that he is, that everyone allows themselves to have an opinion and lynch him.”, he lamented. This is, ultimately, the situation caused by the lynching of which Gérard Depardieuwho pushed Yvan Attal to give him “support”.
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