2023-12-28 20:16:58
Signatory of the platform in support of the actor indicted for rape, Yvan Attal spoke this Thursday on BFMTV. He explained the reasons which prompted him to take part in this message.
Yvan Attal, one of the signatories of the platform in support of Gérard Depardieu, explains. Invited this Thursday evening on BFMTV, the actor-director spoke regarding the reasons which pushed him to send his support to the actor indicted following a complaint for rape, targeted by two other complaints for violence sexual and by around ten similar testimonies. The star of My Father, This Hero denies everything he is accused of.
“Me too, I feel uneasy because I signed this petition which does not completely suit me, but I signed it because there was something stronger than what bothered me in this petition” , explained Yvan Attal.
“I also asked the people who wrote this petition to rephrase things, to talk regarding certain things, and they did not want to,” he added. “But I signed because there are too many things that are wrong.”
“I don’t care if it’s a holy monster”
56 artists signed a column entitled Don’t erase Gérard Depardieu, published Monday December 25 in Le Figaro. Yvan Attal but also Pierre Richard, Nathalie Baye, Arielle Dombasle and Jacques Dutronc praise his acting talents and give him their support, in the midst of a political and media storm surrounding the 75-year-old actor.
“I do not agree to say that he might benefit from total impunity. If this forum says that and if some have read that, then I completely reject it,” clarified Yvan Attal.
He notably returned to one of the sentences in the text, which states that “when we attack Gérard Depardieu in this way, it is art that we attack”. “I don’t agree with that. Me, I don’t care if he’s a sacred monster – with all the admiration I have for Depardieu (…) But he has the right not to be publicly lynched for months. And it is precisely because there is an instruction that we must let justice speak,” argued Yvan Attal.
“I am not signing this petition once morest women”
“I do not want to defend Depardieu the actor, but the citizen Depardieu. I did not sign this petition once morest women, and that is my discomfort. I signed it to say one thing: that is “There is a tyranny of a certain morality which replaces justice, a pack which allows itself to lynch people in the public square”, further argued the director.
“When a guy is convicted, he serves his sentence and when he gets out he has the right to reintegrate. Today we are told that we can no longer show his films, that this guy will no longer have the right to work , but it’s terrible! (…) And if we go that way, it becomes the Wild West. If someone gives me trouble, I’m going to settle my scores outside of justice?”
Yvan Attal notably mentioned the RTBF decisionBelgian public television, to no longer broadcast films in which the actor plays the main role or that of France Télévisions to hang them. In addition, the actor was recently removed from the ranks of the National Order of Quebec.
“I am not talking regarding Gérard Depardieu but regarding a principle”
According to Yvan Attal, what this petition lacks is “saying things backwards”. “To say that it is not because he is a sacred monster that he might benefit from impunity. No, no and no. If he is guilty, he will be tried by justice and will be found guilty. But in the meantime, it is precisely because he is a sacred monster that he would not have the right to benefit from the justice of any citizen, and that upsets me.”
“I am not talking regarding Gérard Depardieu but regarding a principle that must be respected,” he summarized. “Otherwise everyone is shooting at each other from all sides.”
“Justice is sometimes problematic,” admitted Yvan Attal. “The lack of evidence, the limitation period, we tend to shorten this limitation period. But thanks to feminists, thanks to the women who spoke, things are changing. (…) But even if justice has faults, it “is the best system we have. We must try to move things forward, to see how we can improve this justice, reduce the time of the investigation to have more tangible proof immediately. We must encourage women to speak, to file a complaint, obviously all that is complicated. But if we don’t trust the specialists, the lawyers, the magistrates, the judges, who do we trust?”
“I realize that by signing this petition I hurt people around me. People felt attacked by this petition, women. I blamed myself for it and I bite my fingers,” he concluded.
Rain of accusations
The actress Charlotte Arnould a filed a complaint once morest Gérard Depardieu for two rapes in 2018. This complaint led to an indictment of the actor for rape and sexual assault. Since then, a second complaint for sexual assault has been filed by the actress Hélène Darras then a third, for rape, by Spanish journalist and author Ruth Baza. In addition, 13 women accused him of sexual violence last April, in the columns of Mediapart.
The accusations once morest him were the subject of the spotlight with the publication, at the beginning of December, of an issue of Complément d’investigation devoted to him. In addition to the testimonies of alleged victims, we saw the actor making obscene remarks towards several women, knowing he was being filmed.
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