Actor Gérard Darmon Speaks Out in Support of Gérard Depardieu: Presumption of Innocence and the Media Lynching

2023-12-29 23:11:47

The 75-year-old actor spoke on BFMTV regarding his decision to sign the column in support of Gérard Depardieu. He said he had “a holy horror of hordes of dogs hitting a man to the ground”.

A signature as a “citizen act”. This Friday, December 29, the actor Gérard Darmon gave on BFMTV the reasons for his signing the platform in support of Gérard Depardieu, denouncing the “lynching” of the “last sacred monster of cinema”, at the heart of a political-political controversy. media since the broadcast of a Complément d’investigation report on France 2.

“I have a holy horror, beyond Depardieu, of hordes of dogs, those who hit a man to the ground, the bashing, the relentlessness”, which is “unacceptable”, he launched on our antenna .

The actor “did not know” the initiator of the platform

Gérard Darmon also returned to the genesis of his signing. According to him, he “received an email signed by this famous Yannis Ezziadi”, actor and columnist for the far-right magazine Causeur. “I didn’t know him,” he admitted, then assuring that he had signed following having “found [s]we count”, particularly on the importance of the presumption of innocence.

He still recognized that there was “a grandiloquence in this petition” which did not “suit him”. His name is therefore added to a list of several signatories who have expressed “discomfort” with the content of the column or its co-author. Carole Bouquet, Yvan Attal and Nadine Trintignant had earlier distanced themselves from this very controversial text.

The actor added that he did not personally know Gérard Depardieu – targeted by three complaints for rape and sexual assault and indicted in one of the cases – even if he “very much likes” the “extraordinary, free and disturbing character”.

Words that do not shock him

Asked regarding Gérard Depardieu’s controversial comments in North Korea where he multiplies, in a sequence broadcast on France 2, misogynistic and obscene remarks once morest women and a little girl, Gérard Darmon retorted that “the real perverts shut up.” “He talks regarding it like he talks regarding a recipe,” he continued.

“You know how guys talk regarding women? Have you ever been saucy?” said the actor.

According to him, “the important thing” is the “rapes”. If a court convicted Gérard Depardieu for these facts, “I would be the first to tell him: ‘You’re an asshole.'”

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