After the publication of a column in support of actor Gérard Depardieu, some signatories withdrew. The latest, actor Charles Berling, apologized on his Instagram account.
The chain reactions after the broadcast of a documentary Further investigation devoted to Gérard Depardieu and his behavior with certain women are not about to dry up. Thus, the support column published on Christmas Day in Le Figarosigned by more than 50 cinema personalities calling “not to erase Gérard Depardieu“, sparked a large counter-offensive, with the publication of a counter-tribune signed by more than 600 artists. Several women also said they had witnessed or suffered sexual violence from the actor, indicted for rape and suspected of numerous sexual assaults. But the text was also denied by some of its signatoriesparticularly after the disclosure of information about its author, Yannis Ezziadi, actor and columnist for the far-right magazine Talker and close to Julie Depardieu.
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On her Instagram account, Carole Bouquet, former companion of Gérard Depardieu and signatory, explains that she “signed a platform for Gérard Depardieu”, but that she does not support “not the ideas and values associated with the journalist bearer of this platform”. Director Yvan Attal, co-signatory, also shared his regrets on the BFMTV set. But also Nadine Trintignant, Gérard Darmon and Josée Dayan, whose remorse was mainly motivated by the political positions of Yannis Ezziadi. Saturday December 30, it’s actor Charles Berling’s turn to distance himselfvisibly put off by the journey of the author of the column, without naming him directly.
Charles Berling “regrets the lack and the shortcuts of this text”
In a press release published on his Instagram account, Charles Berling declared: “I do not subscribe to this entire forum, I fight on a daily basis the far-right ideas held by its authorI regret the lack of nuance and the shortcuts of this text and I understand the indignation it arouses.” He pursues : “My position has obviously hurt many people, I am deeply saddened by this and I apologize. My commitment against violence against women is unwavering and will always remain so.” The actor explains having signed this letter of support to defend “the legitimacy of justice against the effects of horde and pack” and denounce “this collective hatred, made possible by the massive use of social networks”.
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