With Gerardi DepardieuOne of France is the biggest cinema stars, placed on sex offender this week after found a guilty of sexually at attacking two women in the film set in 2021 in the country.
“This is the message to all men in power, which are responding to the courts and convinced,” said Catherine Le Magomeneresse, who represented the European association against violence to women at work (avft) to trial. “Message is: Watch out, impunity for the above.”
Depardieu, 76, who has made more than 200 films and TV series, had a person in the year one of the key trains at French #Metoo movement: France of the cultivating genius. Depardieu’s talent and international report view is so much as untouched. French cinema and the State had been slow – even in spite – to abuse claims severely.
“It’s the first kind of a strong sign of data that is no one’s above the law for violence against women – what message is already lacking up now,” said green MP Sandrine Rousseau Any co-author of recent Parliamentary Report It is found sexual violence to “endemic” in French Entertainment industry. More only must be applied.
The judge convinced depardieu of Sexually to attack two women The set of the film, les weekend verse (green windows), noting that the actor seemed “not understood the concept of consent or injurious actions.” Depardieu was captured, held and touched women, shouting obscenities and calling one of the “snitch” for talking.
The priority has already been used to clean sexism in legal system itself, feminists said. Depardieu’s trial shows that the French hall can be wild in sexual violence rest. It was clear in trial 51 of the last year’s rape Gisle PelicotHe had been thoughtless man. Pelicoti said that “humbled” defense lawyers who asked if people should think she was drunk or pretending to be asleep. His lawyer, Antoine stove, criticized as in French court, “There is still discussion about whether you’re a ‘good’ victim.”
The Depardieu trial, Judge went further. Setting legal preceding, which ruled that the depardieu’s defense advocate, Jeremy ass, was so “too hard” in two women in the court that must be beaked at “secondary victimization”. One woman, Amelie, a set decorator, said to experience about each question by Depardieu’s defense was “Hell”. Asi had said women were liars and not real victims. And the women called a hysterical, “be thrown.”
Céline Piques de Feminist group osez le Féminisme said to be ruling in the treatment of the depardieu plaintiff in the court could be a turning point in Cock. “Depardieu’s defense is absolutely shocked with multiple excesses and sexist attacks. When women file a legal and legal legal lawyer to destabilize adacti in the problems and legal sphere, where there is not acceptable.”
Depardieu’s behavior was well known in years, witnesses to court. But the actor is defended by the highest French culture political. In 2023, 50 film and cultural figures, between the actor Charlotte Rampling and singer Carl Bruni, signed request is entitled “I cancel Gerardi Depardieu”.
Depardieu’s largest defender was French President. Emmanuel Macron – elected in 2017 as the #metoo movement gone Global after revelations against Hollywood Harvey Harvey Weinstein – vowed to fight violence against women and girls. However, in 2023, with depardieu was in a formal searching rape in another case and also against the investigation above sexist comment revealed in TV documentary, Macron defensivesaying, “He makes France proud.” Asked at the time of the stripping depardieu of the State Award, Macron suggested depardieu was on the target of a “manhunt”. Macron has yet to comment on Depardieu’s conviction.
Auror Berger, in French equality minister, after he spoke: “No talent, however great has the right to immunity.”
Depardieu, who denied charges and to call her opinion, given to 18-month suspended prison sentence. Earlier this year in the film director Christophe RuggiaWho is found guilty of sexually attacking the actor of Hourle in the morning 2000s, when she was an old man between 12 and 15, which was given four-year-old sentence with two years to be served with the electronic two years.
In cases of France can be slow to court. Paris’s office is requested that the depardieu face a further judgment for the rape and sexual assault in a separate case led by the actor Charlotte Arnould, but not date is set. Depardieu denied these allegations. The French TV presently and newsreader Patrick Poivre d’ArvoAs PPDA, it is under a formal searching for alleged rape, after many women come forward in what it seems that one of the biggest #metoo cases in France. But the case is very long. Denies allegations.
Emmanuelle Dancourt, President Association MendoomediaIt is between women who filed complaints against d’arvor. I attended the Depardieu’s trial and said there should be a “complete overhaul” of the French legal system, with a specialist hall in sexist and sexual violence.
Dancourt said that even if the business was important, #metoo groups in France are joining for all sectors and Social Strata, including energy and the lower-income of the “#metoo and action does not focus on the” #metoo in the “#metoo in 1%. “
He said women who speak in France, between the Depardieu’s two victims, you still see the impact on their careers. “France can’t keep lags after culture and politically in this” Dancourt said. “It may be a step forward, two steps back.”