Twenty feminist activists gathered Tuesday near the Interior Ministry, chanting " Darmanin resignation " and " Darmanin rapist " during the handover between Christophe Castaner and Gérald Darmanin, the new minister targeted by a rape complaint. Going down the street with smoke bombs and signs "Darmanin inside, you torch yourself with our complaints ", these activists, who answered a spontaneous call on social networks, were quickly stopped by the police who crisscrossed the neighborhood, also close to the Elysee Palace, found an AFP journalist.
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Posted a few meters from Place Beauvau, they sang "Darmanin rapist, police accomplice" or "A rapist in the Interior, an accomplice to Justice" , in reference to the new Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti, to whom they reproach " a lack of interest and attacks " against the statements made by women victims of violence. “This reshuffle clearly shows that we are not heard, not believed. The promotion of Gérald Darmanin is a joke ... It causes so much anger, despair that we will continue our actions, " said AFP Tiphaine, an activist, regretting that she could not have " gone to the ministry " .
Tuesday afternoon in front of the Elysee Palace, three " Femen ", indicates a police source in Le Figaro , were then arrested by the police .
Mr. Darmanin was implicated by two women in early 2018, one for rape, the other for abuse of weakness, accusations he refutes. If the investigation continues for the first, the prosecution has dismissed the second. The president's entourage said Monday evening that the complaint was " not an obstacle " to his appointment as interior minister, which sparked the "anger" of feminists.
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Feminist protesters near the Interior Ministry on Tuesday. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
