The “prèmiere dame” ends up in the storm for having called “bullshit” to a group of activists who contested a comedian accused of sexual assault but who later emerged completely acquitted. The collectives don’t agree: «Yet another insult to rape victims»
After the slaps given to her husband, Brigitte Macron is caught while calling a group of feminists “bad bitches” and once again the impetuosity of the première dame goes viral. The wife of the French president, who in May was immortalized while giving a slap to Emmanuel Macron a few moments before getting off the plane in Hanoi with a scene that has become a catchphrase (was it really a slap or was it a slap?), he is dividing the people across the Alps between fierce criticism and appreciation for his frankness.
These are the facts. On Saturday evening, some activists from the feminist collective NousToutes, wearing masks with the comedian’s image Ary Abittan they had interrupted the actor’s show in the Parisian club Folies Bergère, chanting the slogan «Inhabitant rapist”. The fifty-one-year-old actor of films such as Don’t marry my daughters or Liberté, egalité, fraternitéin 2021 he was accused by a 23-year-old young woman he was dating at the time of having forced her to have non-consensual sexual intercourse. Disappeared from the public eye in April 2024 Inhabitant had obtained the dismissal of the charges, a ruling of no precedence confirmed in January this year. According to the Paris Court of Appeal, “serious or coherent evidence” was missing after an investigation lasting more than three years. The testimonies of ex-girlfriends had described him as “a respectful partner”, and psychiatric and psychological evaluations excluded “deviant sexuality or aggressive sexual impulses”.
Of course, nothing excludes that the actor was truly violent on the evening accused, but a court closed the case. Feminists don’t care, they believe Inhabitant a rapist and since he started acting again they have staged protests at every show, demanding that his performances be cancelled. This also happened last Saturday Authenticevent presented as follows: «At 50 years old, between fatherhood, love and resilience, Ary reveals his reflections on relationships and childhood, skillfully intertwining laughter and moments of authentic emotion».
Sunday evening, Mrs Macron she went to see the show with her daughter Tiphaine Auziere and spoke with Inhabitant before he took the stage, according to a video posted Monday by the gossip site Public and then deleted. The images, taken from social media, show the president’s wife backstage as she approaches the comedian, smiling, and asks him: “So how are you?”. “I’m scared,” he replies. “Afraid of what?” replies Madame. “Everything.” “If there are any bad bitches we’ll throw them out,” he reassures him Brigitte Macron laughing. «You say?», he says. «Especially masked bandits», adds the première dame.
Open up heaven. On Instagram, where they took the video, the NousToutes collective writes that “public support for a man in such a disturbing case is a disastrous signal sent to victims of sexual abuse”. “We denounce the widespread communication aimed at positioning him as a traumatized individual, humiliating and despising the victim,” the post continues. «We denounce the auditoriums that give a red carpet to men accused of rape, normalization of sexist and sexual violence. It is a public insult to the victims. We believe you are victims, we will not forgive you rapists! An activist who took part in the action and used the pseudonym Gwen said the collective was “deeply shocked and scandalized” by the lady’s language Macron. “It is yet another insult to victims and feminist groups,” she said. Inhabitant he remains guilty for the French feminists and the president’s wife would have made a big deal by taking his defense. To no avail, the first lady’s team claimed that the criticism was only for the “radical method” of protest of the collective who “wearing masks, interrupted the show on Saturday night to prevent the artist from performing.”
However, the criticism quickly moved to the political level. “We started with women’s rights as the ‘big cause of the five-year mandate,’ and we’re ending up with insults,” she said on Manon AubryMEP from France Unbowed, the radical left. «It’s time for the couple Macron go away.” The former French president, Francois Hollandespeaking to RTL radio, he reproached the lady for having expressed herself with “vulgarity”. He said: «There may be forms of protest that offend us. But you have to try, when you have a function, a responsibility, a presence, to seek pacification and not seek verbal escalation.” To then add that however «in France there is no statute of premiere dame. You are free, madame Macronto say what he thinks.”
Brigitte, who has already had to defend herself for years from the rumors that she is a man, a transvestite, even the father of her three children with her first husband André-Louis Auzièrenow he has to explain that it was not his intention to defend a rapist. Judith Godrèchethe French actress who called for an investigation into sexual abuse in French cinema, took to Instagram to criticize her. “I’m a stupid bitch too. And I support everyone else,” he wrote.
The deputy of the Rassemblement National, Jean-Philippe Tanguyinstead claims that the president’s wife’s comments were made in private and “stolen.” The Elysée, meanwhile, is trying to stop things: the president’s wife “is not in any way attacking a cause”, she says.
Article taken from La Verità
