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 which crisscrossed the district, also close to the Elysée.
Posted a few meters from Place Beauvau, they sang "Darmanin rapist, police accomplice" or "A rapist inside, an accomplice to justice", in reference to the new Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, to whom they reproach "a lack of interest and attacks" against the words of 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, ”says Tiphaine, an activist, regretting that he could not have been able to“ go before the ministry ”.
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 entourage of the President said Monday evening that the complaint was "not an obstacle" to his appointment as Minister of the Interior, which sparked the "anger" of feminists.