François Bayrou noted this Sunday his differences with Emmanuel Macron over Gérard Depardieu, saying he had “no indulgence” for the actor. Indicted for rape and targeted by several complaints, Gérard Depardieu has also been at the heart of a controversy since the broadcast of a report in December on France 2 in which he multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks while addressing women, not sparing a little girl with comments of a sexual nature.
“Someone who talks about women in the way he talked about them, someone who talks about children – and particularly little girls – in the way he talked about them, and someone who looks at little girls as I have no indulgence in that: I will not be found among his defenders,” insisted the president of MoDem on BFMTV. And to insist: “Whether it’s an actor or even a great actor, I don’t care. I do not want to lend the slightest complacency with words, attitudes and perhaps even worse, looks of this order,” added the centrist leader.
” Manhunt “
Asked about the comments of Emmanuel Macron, who had supported Gérard Depardieu at the end of December, affirming that he was a “huge actor” who “makes France proud”, while denouncing “a manhunt”, François Bayrou said argue that “we all have the right to have different positions”.
Regarding the Head of State, to whom he is close, the head of MoDem explained that “what affects him the most is when a pack attacks someone”. “But sometimes there is something indefensible in a certain number of attitudes. And in any case, for me, we are in that order,” he added. “I think the beginning of his sentences was right. And then, he let himself be dragged away,” François Bayrou further considered.