Paris (AFP)
Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said Sunday "very happy" that deputies have seized justice after remarks about rape held on LCI by the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, she described as "very stupid".
"We need to have freedom of expression in our country, it is constitutive of our democracy and I also consider that when there are words that are unreliable or questionable, we have a judicial system", said on Radio J the government representative.
"It is very fortunate that parliamentarians have seized justice on the basis of Article 40 (of the Code of Criminal Procedure)". This article obliges any representative of the authorities or official to inform the prosecution of a crime or offense brought to his attention.
"Obviously we can see on the screen that it's the second degree, but I'm embarrassed by this way of using the word rape, rape, rape, rape, rape. (...) What I find good, it is that justice is seized, and that from there we can objectify things, "Ms. Ndiaye developed, for whom the philosopher was" somewhere the incarnation of a world in which (rape) was not so bad.
Four LFI deputies seized the Paris public prosecutor after Alain Finkielkraut's remarks, considering that they could constitute an offense under Article 24 of the Act of 29 July 1881: provocation + hatred or violence against a person or group of persons on the grounds of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.
"Violate, rape, rape, that's it, I say to men: rape women, besides, I rape mine every night ... but every night, she's fed up, huh, she's fed up," she said. took away Mr. Finkielkraut confronted with the feminist Caroline De Haas, during a broadcast on LCI. "Second degree", assured the journalist David Pujadas who animated the debate.
During the show, the philosopher had criticized the notion of "culture of rape" and lamented an "extension of the concept of sexism", suggesting "that there would be a lot of potential rapists in France".
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