"I am a woman who, like the vast majority, has been confronted since the age of 19 with a series of sexist and sexual violence," said Aurélie Filippetti.
As part of the fifth anniversary of the #MeToo movement, the former Minister of Culture returned to the domestic violence she says she suffered from her former husband, economist Thomas Piketty, in an interview with
Journal Sunday
, October 9.
The latter had filed a complaint against him in 2009. A complaint closed without further action.
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For the weekly, she remembered in particular the long legal process and her own guilt in the face of the facts, which for a long time pushed her to be silent.
Aurélie Filippetti thus explains that she "felt the shame" specific to many victims, and assures that very few people, especially within the socialist party of which she was a member, showed her any support.
“Apart from a few testimonies of solidarity that I can count on the fingers of one hand, in the political world, I have come up against a wall of indifference.
It did not help me to speak,” she said.
Finally, it was the #MeToo movement that pushed her to seize the authorities.
It “helped get rid of that guilt,” she continued.
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Aurélie Filippetti then spoke about her other lawsuit for defamation against Thomas Piketty.
Asked about this affair in 2019 during a conference filmed at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Toulouse, the economist replied: “The relationship you are talking about was a relationship with an extremely violent person vis-à-vis screw my daughters.”
Words invented from scratch according to the former Minister of Culture, who had therefore started a second legal battle.
On May 25, 2022, Thomas Piketty was sentenced, for defamation, to pay a symbolic euro to Aurélie Filippetti, and to reimburse her for her legal costs in the amount of 3,500 euros.
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Since then, Thomas Piketty has requested an appeal to the Court of Cassation, a remedy to challenge a court decision.
"There is enormous pressure to silence women who speak (...) As by chance, the appeal in cassation of Thomas Piketty has just been served on me, a few days after I spoke on a TV show asks Aurélie Filippetti.
"A maneuver so that he can make people believe that the conviction is not final," said the politician, on the eve of a third legal battle.
