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"I'm ashamed for you": the debate on sexual violence electrifies the Council of Paris

2021-02-02T19:58:35.407Z


A feminist collective demonstrated on Tuesday, before the opening of the meeting, against the return of Christophe Girard in politics. The line has


"Pff… Could we move on and stop talking about sexual harassment?"

"In the corridors of the City Hall of Paris, within the team of the mayor (PS) Anne Hidalgo, it is an understatement to say that the prevailing climate following the sex scandals linked to the local political sphere is seriously starting to deteriorate. embarrass.

As the first Paris Council of 2021 opened on Tuesday, the subject was once again on the agenda.

Because Christophe Girard, targeted by feminists in July for his relations with the pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff and by a preliminary investigation for rape of a minor closed without follow-up because of the statute of limitations, decided to come back to sit after his withdrawal .

The former pillar of the municipal majority, who became a simple councilor for Paris the day after his resignation from his deputy post, sat on the benches of the non-registered after his exclusion, last Thursday, from the group Paris in common (PS and related).

Enough to stir up the anger of the handful of feminists of the Grenades collective, gathered on the Place Saint-Gervais (IVth) behind a huge red banner on which we could read: "Impunity of elected officials, it's over".

"We demand the resignation of Christophe Girard from all his mandates

(Editor's note: councilor of Paris and district councilor of the 18th

century), in the name of ethics in politics.

He is an emblem of the old world which hangs on and refuses to see change, ”explains Casiopé, spokesperson for the collective.

Maxime Cochard also singled out

The organizers of the demonstration are also asking for the resignation of Maxime Cochard, councilor for Paris and the 14th arrondissement, accused of rape by a young activist.

The elected Communist denies however and has filed a complaint for defamation.

However, the PCF federation asked him to withdraw from the Paris Council.

Girded with their tricolor scarves, three councilors from Paris, Danielle Simonnet (Left Party) and environmentalists Raphaëlle Rémi-Leleu and Alice Coffin, known for their activism, as well as the regional councilor (EELV) Annie Lahmer, took part in the demonstration.

“Christophe Girard has the right to be there today but if I were in his place, I would resign.

I think he does not understand how he is participating in a discourse that has long helped pedocriminality and the culture of rape to take hold.

We do not have the same social tolerance to gender-based and sexual violence, to the discourse that allows us to build impunity, ”criticized Raphaëlle Rémi-Leleu.

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For Alice Coffin, "Christophe Girard embodies the omnipotence of certain powerful men who act with complete impunity".

The feminist activist also welcomed "the turn taken by the group Paris in common which asked for the exclusion" of the elected.

An elected LR calls for the creation of an independent commission

Since the start of Anne Hidalgo's new term of office, four cases of sexual assault have directly hit the Town Hall.

In addition to Christophe Girard and Maxime Cochard, the former deputy in charge of the Seine, Pierre Aidenbaum, accused by a close collaborator, was indicted for rape and resigned from his functions.

An employee of the assistant (EELV) in charge of Health, Anne Souyris, accused of rape by an environmental activist, for his part was fired.

The right also did not miss the opportunity to react, asking that the political class make "its examination of conscience".

Nelly Garnier, elected LR and spokesperson for the Changer Paris group, has thus submitted a wish requesting the creation of an independent commission to “prevent sexual and gender-based violence within the City of Paris”.

But this was rejected by the executive, who recalled that actions to prevent gender-based and sexual violence, as well as training, would be put in place for all elected officials.

While the president of the right-wing opposition, Rachida Dati, stamped his feet from her desk in the face of the response of the assistant in charge of gender equality, Hélène Bidard, Nelly Garnier did not mince words to the against Anne Hidalgo's team: “So much self-satisfaction leaves me speechless.

I am ashamed for you.

For this socialite left who will have covered everything.

For this cultural left who will never hesitate to abandon the most fragile when it comes to protecting their own.

For this left for whom it is never rape but love.

It's not pedophilia, it's literature, photography.

I am ashamed for you.

"

Source: leparis

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