INTERVIEW
He had made it the subject of his previous novel. Cartoonist Joann Sfar has been the victim of harassment on social networks. A young woman met on Facebook used the information they had exchanged to impersonate her ex-girlfriend with other personalities. This story, told in You know maybe , published in 2018 by Albin Michel, ended at the police station. It also led Joann Sfar to experience a form of empathy in the face of what happened to Benjamin Griveaux, an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Paris, who chose to throw in the towel on February 15, after the dissemination of intimate videos on Internet.
"It's a story that looks like this. I complained after a year, because this woman used what she knew about me to make other people believe things," says the author. of the Rabbi's Cat . "I have some director friends who called me and said, 'I'm going to be in a relationship with your ex, do you mind?' I did not know what they were talking to me about ... "A manipulation that went further than identity theft:" She blackmailed great journalists, because she had photos of their privacy, "says Joann Sfar.
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"I would have voted for a politician who said: 'Yes, I had an absence'"
"In the Griveaux case, I do not understand why he did not react by saying: 'Yes, this woman has a photo of my dick, despite everything, I will not help but live'", notes Johann Sfar. "We should enter a world where it is normal to send a photo of your boyfriend or boy."
For him, the renunciation of Benjamin Griveaux is a bad signal sent to victims of revenge porn , forced to keep a low profile. "I would have voted for a politician who said: 'Yes, I had an absence, yes I am not a faithful man, I sent a photo of my cock, I am sorry. [... ] Can we work? '"Says Joann Sfar. Before concluding: "I would have found it extremely classy."