Alice Coffin has called and eventually got the resignation of the assistant to the culture to the mayor of Paris Christophe Girard, the hearing in the case Matzneff.
“What happened is very serious. The storm of insults and hatred was so violent that I was offered police protection.” In the Face of threats, Alice Coffin was resolved to accept it, she was entrusted to the Parisian Sunday.
The elected ecologist of the 12 district of Paris played a major role in the recent resignation of Christophe Girard, deputy culture to the city hall of Paris. Thursday, July 23, in front of the city hall, in the company of elected EELV as Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu and feminist activists, she called for opening an internal investigation and the suspension of this man be heard in march by the police in the investigation “for raping minors”, which refers to the writer Gabriel Matzneff. Christophe Girard was quickly withdrawn, not wishing to pollute the mandate of Anne Hidalgo, brilliantly re-elected Mayor of Paris, regretting, however, a “poisonous climate general, ( … ), where it tramples our Rights and the penal Code”. Anne Hidalgo had also announced, in the aftermath of the event, bring the case to court, after about calling it City hall “pedoland”.
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The case took a new twist on the social networks. The remarks made by Alice Coffin in 2018 on the men – “not having a husband to me exposes rather not be raped, not to be killed, not to be beaten up” – have received numerous criticisms, including within other elected parisians of the majority, such as Jean-François Martins. And insults which lead today to live under police protection.
