the minister of The Interior has been criticized by elected officials left in “Release” and by adolescent girls and young women in Mediapart.
“Gérald Darmanin cannot remain minister of the Interior. Its retention would mean an equal contempt on the part of the president of the Republic vis-à-vis all women and their fight for respect and equality”. In an article published in Libération, Thursday, elected officials of the left are demanding the resignation of the Interior minister, targeted by women’s associations since his appointment on 6 July.
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“Gérald Darmanin is presumed innocent until proven guilty”, is reminiscent of the two coordinators of Generation.s, Claire Monod and senator Sophie Cut-Polian. “But how can one justify the promotion Inside of a minister involved in a preliminary investigation for rape, harassment and abuse of weakness and in which lawyers do not dispute the facts but their criminal nature ? A ministry which should be the protection of citizens in the face of gender-based violence and sexual always so many ? How to ensure the fairness of the parties in these circumstances ?” wondered the autrices of this forum, as mp Clémentine Autain, a member of the group of France, disobedient, and Elsa Faucillon (PCF) or the member of the european parliament Insubordinate Manon Aubry.
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“The police republican deserves better that this appointment and the women in politics, as elsewhere, does have calmed down once more”, to prevent these elected women and feminists, joined in their demands by other women.
In a column published on Mediapart on Thursday, more than 20 000 young citizens between the ages of 13 to 25 years old require the resignation of Gérald Darmanin. “We are this committed generation […] who has no fear, who will stop at nothing”, write the signatories, who don’t want to let this appointment pass” the minister of the Interior. “We’re the generation #MeToo (…) This generation who will not hesitate to shout his anger until it is heard”, added the signatories.
An association enters the justice to revive a closed case
The new minister of the Interior since 2017 of a complaint from a woman who had sought in 2009 to try to overturn a conviction. According to the complainant, Gérald Darmanin him would have dangled its support and she would have felt compelled to “go to pot”. He says that it was the opposite of a relationship based on free consent. More than 15 days after his appointment, Gérald Darmanin continues to face critics who undermine and force the majority to support it, sometimes embarrassed. Classified two times without a result in a first time, and then resulted in a non-place, the procedure has been revived by the Paris court of appeal, which was requested in early June for further investigations.
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A feminist association, has said on Wednesday to have seized the public prosecutor of Lille to denounce acts of “traffic of influence” aimed Gérald Darmanin, thus trying to revive an investigation closed in 2018, which is open at the time for “abuse of weakness”.
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Gérald Darmanin, minister of the Interior
Realignment charges of rape… Macron-Darmanin, their conversation secret, A feminist group that wants to re-launch proceedings against Darmanin for traffic of influence Darmanin said his “confidence” to the prefect of police Lallement on a background of rumors of eviction
This association, “Fill feminist”, founded in June and made up of a dozen people, also sent on Wednesday a letter to the High authority for transparency in public life (HATVP) in order to “alert” on a situation that is, according to its president, Anaïs Leleux, a “real conflict of interest”, so justice was ordered in June, the resumption of the investigation on a charge of rape against the minister of the Interior.
