2023-12-29 15:45:00
the essentials On December 25, 56 artists co-signed a column to defend Gérard Depardieu. Since then, Carole Bouquet and Yvan Attal have expressed their “discomfort” after co-signing this text.
“Don’t erase Gérard Depardieu”. It is with these words, through a column published in the columns of Figaro on December 25, that 56 artists had wished to provide their support to Gérard Depardieu, indicted for “rape” and “sexual assault” since 2020 and at the center of numerous testimonies from women denouncing similar violence. “We can no longer remain silent in the face of the lynching that has befallen him, in the face of the torrent of hatred that is pouring down on his person, without nuance, in the most complete amalgam,” affirmed the text, signed by the hand of the actor Yannis Ezziadi, close to Julie Depardieu.
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Just a few days after the publication of this text, several personalities are already distancing themselves… This is the case, among others, of Carole Bouquet. This Friday, December 29, the 66-year-old actress said she felt “uncomfortable” after co-signing this column, even if she maintains her support for the actor. “I do not support the ideas and values associated with the journalist carrying this platform, explained the sixty-year-old. Giving him visibility through Gérard makes me, as you can imagine, deeply uncomfortable. “
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According to our colleagues at Monde, Yannis Ezziadi is “close to Sarah Knafo, the advisor and companion of Eric Zemmour”. This 32-year-old actor also writes a column for the magazine Talker. The person concerned had, among other things, defended Gabriel Matzneff when the French writer was accused of rape of a minor.
“I feel unwell”
The actress is not alone in this situation. Yvan Attal also expressed his “discomfort”, for probably different reasons. “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, explained the actor in front of the cameras BFMTV this Thursday, December 28. I realize that by signing this petition I have hurt people around me. People felt attacked by this petition, women. I blamed myself for it and I bite my fingers.”
The 58-year-old artist, however, claims to have decided to co-sign this column “because there are too many things that are wrong”. The latter believes that Gérard Depardieu is not being reserved “the fate that would be reserved for any ordinary citizen”: “He has the right not to be publicly lynched for months, months, months. C “It’s in the newspapers every day, and it’s precisely because there is an investigation that we must let justice speak.”
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