Mevent. A rally against “the government of shame” at the call of the Observatory of sexist and sexual violence in politics will take place in Paris at 6 p.m. Place Saint-Augustin to protest against the maintenance of Damien Abad, accused of rape by two women in government. The new Minister of Solidarity held a brief press conference on Monday where he assured that he had “never raped any woman”. “All my sexual relations have always been mutually consensual. I have never raped any woman,” he added, referring to “a deep wound” for him and those around him.
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Legislative. Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be traveling in Meurthe-et-Moselle. The rebel and headliner of the New People’s Ecological and Socialist Union (Nupes), who dreams of becoming Prime Minister after the legislative elections, will support local candidates Caroline Fiat and his deputy Julien Hézard.
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Justice. The Paris Court of Appeal is due to rule on Tuesday on the dismissal for “rape” ordered in December by an investigating judge in favor of director Luc Besson, an emblematic case of the #MeToo era. On April 19, the investigating chamber examined the appeal of the Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy against the abandonment of the proceedings from which the influential French filmmaker and producer benefited on December 9. The public prosecutor requested confirmation of the dismissal. On May 18, 2018, the actress filed a complaint for rape, a few hours after an appointment in a Parisian palace. Two months later, the actress filed a complaint for other rapes and sexual assaults committed between 2016 and 2018 in Paris and London.
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Strike. Traffic will still be disrupted this Tuesday on the RATP bus and tram networks in Île-de-France. The metros and RER are not affected. The traffic of certain bus lines will be interrupted and the open lines will have “on average two out of three buses” in circulation “with variations according to the sectors”, specified the RATP on Sunday in a press release. Of the eight tram lines that the company operates in the Paris region, five will be affected by this social movement: T1, T2, T3a and T3b.
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