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But, added Emmanuel Macron, “if I have one regret, it is not having said enough how important the words of women who are victims of this violence are and how important this fight is for me.”
Gérard Depardieu is the target of three complaints for sexual assault or rape – accusations that he refutes. He has also been indicted for rape since 2020, following a complaint from an actress in her twenties, Charlotte Arnould.
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The comments at the end of December by the Head of State, who reacted to a report by “Complément d’Enquête” broadcast on France 2 during which the actor multiplied misogynistic and insulting remarks while addressing women, shocked a part of the population.
Feminist associations have described the President of the Republic’s statements as “spitting” in the face of victims of sexual violence, and denounced a “reversal of guilt”.
“Since the first day (of the five-year term, editor’s note) and even before, the subject of violence against women has been a priority and we will continue to fight against this social phenomenon,” Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.
“I am pleased that speech is being freed and I hope that it can be freed as much as possible,” he added. “But I think that our role is to allow its framework, that justice can do its work, that we protect the women who are threatened, but that here too we do not do it in forgetting our constitutional principles, including the presumption of innocence.”
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