“I was not looking for a boomerang against Anne Hidalgo but a snowball effect on the French political environment far too complacent about sexual violence. "
Four days after the resignation of Christophe Girard, Deputy Culture, because of his supposed links with Gabriel Matzneff, the writer targeted by an investigation for "rape of minors", a few hours after the revelation of expense reports showing that the elected official invited the writer to a restaurant recently, the feminist's words are concise and straightforward.
A relief for the two chosen ones
Alice Coffin, the elected ecologist of the 12th arrondissement, who "brought down" Christophe Girard from the Deputy Culture Officer of Anne Hidalgo, however, refutes any "triumphalism". “I didn't need this new dossier to know that Christophe Girard's appointment to culture in Paris was revolting. I had warned Anne Hidalgo, in February, that there was a problem with Christophe Girard. It was unthinkable for me that he was on the lists. "
“I had also warned Anne Hidalgo, on a market, that it was out of the question for her to renew Girard during the negotiations (Editor's note: for the designation of deputies) . "
"We are relieved", decrypts Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, elected (EELV) of Paris center, the other elected leader of the anti-Girard sling. “His resignation was the only responsible decision. "
Death threats
However, the two women paid dearly on Twitter and in their private life for their bang during the demonstration last Thursday. “Even if no EELV activist carried the banners deemed infamous,” insists Fatouma Koné, president of the EELV group in Paris.
"We had the right to a torrent of insults, thousands of hate messages, a cyberstalking raid, death threats" and in the end, police protection, for each of them, deemed necessary by the ministry of the Interior. Alice Coffin filed a complaint. Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu will do it these days.
“The hardest part, analyze Raphaëlle Remy Leleu and Alice Coffin, is to have seen elected officials who sit with us on the Council of Paris (Editor's note: the socialists and the communists) , allies who understood our struggles and who are silent. "
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“Alice Coffin and Raphaël Rémy-Leleu were targeted, regrets Fatouma Koné while the letter targeting Christophe Girard and requesting an internal investigation was signed by the entire EELV group. "" Anne Hidalgo tried to isolate us, to divide the EELV group. She threw us, Raphaëlle Remy Leleu and me, to graze, ”attacks Alice Coffin.
They want Darmanin to leave
Yannick Jadot, MEP (EELV), clearly supported them: “the ecologists are right to demand all the light on the networks of appeasement which allowed Gabriel Matzneff not to answer for his crimes of pedophilia. This inter-self of a certain left and right intelligentsia revolts me when children have been raped and its author was bragging about it. "
Christophe Girard, friend of Matzneff, “renewed deputy for culture in 2020, insists Raphaël Remy-Leleu it was not possible. It doesn't exist, it doesn't exist anymore! "
“This Girard affair will advance the cause, hopes the feminist. We are going to move from the culture of rape and impunity to the culture of feminism. "
The next step? It is Alice Coffin who announces it: "After the resignation of Christophe Girard, it is the departure of Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior", who is the subject of a complaint for rape in an alleged case going back to 2009.