Ecologists Alice Coffin and Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu as well as four other activists are pursued for tweets against the old deputy at the Paris town hall.
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At the Paris town hall, the air of the next municipal council, from February 8, promises to be responsible for electricity. A year and a half after having resigned from assistant culture under the pressure of ecologists, Christophe Girard hopes to hold his revenge. Following the complaint he had filed, six feminists – five women and a man – were indicted on 28 January for defamation and public insult to him. Among them, the two ecologists who had led the Fronde against him on the Paris Council, Alice Coffin and Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu. “Now, all six will be automatically returned to the Correctional Court,” says Delphine Meillet, Counsel for Christophe Girard.
For the former “M. Culture” of Bertrand Delanoë then Anne Hidalgo, once again a simple councilor of Paris without label, this decision modifies the political deal. “In 2020, Alice Coffin and Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu had called upon my resignation while I did not even have been indicted, he notes. I hope they will have decency, they really are Now, to set up the majority. “Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu’s singing replica:” Since it has been excluded from the majority and has left assistant position, the political legitimacy of Christophe Girard. approaching nothingness. His attacks leave me insensitive. “Alice Coffin is just as firm:” This intimidation attempt does not scare me. “
This new act of the Case Girard says a lot about the chasms which, on the background of Motion #Metoo, today separate from the militants on the left, all defenders of the cause LGBT, but of different generations and sensibilities. It is also revealing about the way justice and political intertwine in these kinds of files. Christophe Girard believes that he had been unjustly salty, and now have justice for him. He was heard as a simple witness in the matzneff affair. As for the complaint lodged against him by a man who accused him of having abused him when he was 16 years old, it was subsequently classified, the possible facts being prescribed.
” Gag procedure “
The feminists, they do not consider the ex-deputy whiten. And they are angry that he returns the judicial weapon against them. “It’s a gagging procedure, to silence ourselves,” denounces Journalist Coline Claavaud-Mégevand, one of the women indicted. Factor aggravating in their eyes: Targeted as an elegance, Christophe Girard enjoys “functional protection”, so that his lawyer fees are borne by the city of Paris, within the limit of 3,000 euros.
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