Signatory of the platform in support of the actor indicted for rape and sexual assault, the actress indicated this Friday that she was “uncomfortable” after revelations about the journalist and actor at the origin of the text, of which she does not “support values”.
Carole Bouquet “uncomfortable”. After openly defending her former partner Gérard Depardieu, the actress returned to her participation in the forum in support of the actor, targeted by several complaints for rape and sexual assault. The text was published in Le Figaro Monday December 25.
This text, signed by numerous artists such as Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet, Charlotte Rampling and Bertrand Blier, Jacques Weber, Pierre Richard and Gérard Darmon, was published on the initiative of Yannis Ezziadi, actor and editorialist for the far-right magazine Talker.
But since this publication, several media such as The world revealed the proximity of the journalist and actor with Sarah Knafo, the main advisor to the former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour and with the identity and reactionary spheres.
In a press release published on Instagram this Friday, December 29, Carole Bouquet said she was “deeply uncomfortable” about having given “visibility through Gérard” to a journalist whose ideas she “does not support “.
“I signed a column for Gérard Depardieu, however, I do not support the ideas and values associated with the journalist carrying this column,” specifies the actress.
“A petition that doesn’t really work”
Thursday evening, the actor and director Yvan Attal, who is also one of the signatories of this column, also admitted on the set of BFMTV, to having felt “uncomfortable” after having appended his name to this text.
“I feel uneasy because I signed this petition which does not suit me completely, but I signed it because there was something stronger than what bothered me in this petition,” a- he explained.
“I also asked the people who wrote this petition to rephrase things, to talk about certain things, and they did not want to,” he added. “But I signed because there are too many things that are wrong.”
A “spit in the face of the victims”
The day after the publication of this column, Laurent Boyet, president of the Les Papillons association, which fights against all forms of child abuse, announced that he was withdrawing Pierre Richard, also a signatory, his title of ambassador.
“There is an incompatibility between what Gérard Depardieu represents and being an ambassador for a child protection association,” he said on BFMTV.
The platform was experienced as a “spit in the face of the victims” of sexist and sexual violence, according to feminist associations. Emmanuelle Dancourt, co-founder of #MeTooMedias, said she was “devastated”.
“I have the impression that there is a misunderstanding when I hear about the torrent of hatred that pours out on Depardieu… There is never revenge (on the part of the complainants, Editor’s note) but a need to protect others,” she stressed on our antenna.
“It’s a spit in the face of the victims of violence,” the “Nous Tous” collective also reacted to AFP. The president of the Feminist Collective against Rape Emmanuelle Piet has her compared on BFMTV the world of cinema to an “incestuous family”.