The director Jean-Pierre Baro, programmed at La Colline and implicated by the # MeTooThéâtre movement - while a complaint for rape against him was closed without follow-up - explained in a press release to pay the costs
"of amalgam accusers ”
.
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Former director of the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry (Val-de-Marne), Jean-Pierre Baro left office in 2019 while already claiming his innocence, the day after a strike by the establishment's staff calling for his resignation . The complaint against him was filed against him in 2018 by a former collaborator, for facts which allegedly took place in September 2011, years before he took over the management of the theater. It was dismissed in March 2019 for lack of evidence.
The story resurfaced in early October in the wake of the hashtag # MeTooThéâtre, which called for the emergence of testimonies on sexual assault in this environment.
Tuesday, October 19, the director of the Parisian theater of the Hill, Wajdi Mouawad, refused to deprogram two artists singled out, Bertrand Cantat, sentenced for the murder of his companion in 2003, and Jean-Pierre Baro.
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“The association of my name with the #MeToo movement or with people convicted of violence against women is serious and is an intolerable injustice: I am innocent,”
protests Jean-Pierre Baro.
"I refuse that my name be used
,
" he
adds, explaining that the complaint against him
"was dismissed because the facts denounced were not constituted"
.
"Stop exerting pressure on the women and men who believe in my artistic work and share it, on the pretext that it would be to deny the need for the fight for gender equality and against all forms of harassment to welcome Jean-Pierre Baro
, the director is indignant.
Anyone who has something to say to me, to reproach me, let him do it today, in court and I will answer them, ”
he concludes.
