200 activists denounce the “sexist campaign orchestrated by the fachosphere” against Adèle Haenel

Adèle Haenel has drawn the wrath of the Internet on February 20.

And this, for having shown his support "as a feminist" for the strikers mobilized against the pension reform and denounced the presence of ministers accused of rape in the government, during a public meeting at the University of Paris 8. Since then, the French actress is undergoing "a violent sexist campaign", denounce nearly 200 activists in a column published in the

, this Friday, March 3.

"Orchestrated by the fachosphere, from CNews to

, and its traditional allies, the offensive gave rise to a deluge of sexist remarks against the actress: insults, remarks on her physique, attempts to discredit", list the signatories of the text. , including writer Annie Ernaux, director Céline Sciamma and anti-racist activist Assa Traoré.

“Misogynistic strategies that are not new when a woman expresses herself politically.

Even today, the media talk about Adèle Haenel's "coup de sang" during the 45th Césars ceremony in 2020, even though she denounced by her gesture the impunity enjoyed by dominants and celebrities accused of sexist violence. and sexual."

As a reminder, on February 28, 2020, the

and the director Céline Sciamma had left the room with a bang when Roman Polanski, absent from the ceremony, had won the trophy for best director for his film

.

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From actress to activist

Since then, Adèle Haenel has distanced herself from French cinema, today more determined to engage politically.

Invited by the collective Du Pain & Des Roses (a branch of the political organization Révolution Permanente), on Monday February 20 in Paris, the actress did not mince her words in front of the some 350 people who had come to attend this meeting in a amphitheater of the University of Paris 8. "I played in a film called

, and today I want to say: You can put misery on the capitalists and the bourgeois and portray the youth on fire”, she then launched.

“The government will only listen to us if we force them.

And for that, we must block the economy, and force a general and renewable strike, after March 7 and 8.

A position that set fire to the powder.

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Too bad for you

On social networks, many Internet users then did not fail to take a dislike to the actress very involved in the #MeToo movement, the first renowned to have denounced sexual violence in the middle of French cinema.

And very quickly, remarks targeting the young woman's physique flooded Twitter.

According to the

, "the violence of the remarks against the actress also reflects the fear that arouses, in the world of the powerful, the fact that an internationally recognized artist, having received several Césars including that of best actress, can choose another camp".

The signatories of the text add: "A fear redoubled by the fact that it poses the question of the fight for women's rights as an issue inseparable from the battle for pensions in progress, while this could intensify from of March 7."

Then to conclude by calling for action on March 8, International Women's Rights Day.

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