The singers Angèle and Louane are among the signatories of this counter-tribunal launched Friday at the initiative of the left-wing collective “Cerveaux unavailable”.
Some 8,000 artists signed the “counter-tribune” in 48 hours in response to the support of actor Gérard Depardieu, widely criticized after the broadcast of images in which he multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks towards women, its initiators indicated on Sunday .
“Thank you to all the artists, known or not”, including the singers Angèle and Louane or the rapper Médine, wrote on
“Spitting in the faces of the victims”
This text responds to a column from the pro-Depardieu camp calling for “not to erase” the former icon of French cinema, published on Christmas Day in Le Figaroas well as the words of Emmanuel Macron, who denounced on December 20 a “manhunt” against the 75-year-old actor, indicted for rape since 2020 following a complaint from a actress in her twenties, Charlotte Arnould.
“This forum and the defense of Macron are spitting in the face of the victims of Gérard Depardieu but also of all the victims of sexist and sexual violence,” believe the signatories of the “counter-tribune”.
Another critical petition, entitled “Address to the old world”, was published on Sunday on the Médiapart website with some 70 signatures from cinema personalities including Laure Calamy and Anouk Grinberg.
“No one wants to erase the artist. But the talent of Gérard Depardieu does not authorize the indignity of his behavior”, it is written in this text.
Signatories distance themselves
Having fallen from his pedestal after the broadcast at the beginning of December of images in which he multiplies misogynistic remarks, Gérard Depardieu, targeted in total by three complaints for sexual assault or rape which he refutes, divides the world of cinema and beyond.
The unease is amplified by the fact that several of the approximately 60 personalities who signed the support platform have since distanced themselves, including Carole Bouquet, Nadine Trintignant and Gérard Darmon.
Because an almost unknown actor, Yannis Ezziadi, columnist for the ultraconservative magazine Causeur and close to Julie Depardieu, the actor’s daughter, is at the initiative. It was described in an investigation by World as “close to the identitarian and reactionary spheres”.
On Sunday, it was the actor Pierre Richard who dissociated himself, explaining on victims of sexual assault. “I signed without knowing the ideological movement in which the pen of the petition evolves,” he adds.