The novelist Virginie Despentes. - JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO / SIPA

A rant. Virginie Despentes writes all her indignation in the Liberation columns this Sunday after the César ceremony which rewarded Roman Polanski, accused of having raped twelve women. The novelist, scandalized, feels "sullied by the spectacle" which she describes as "orgy of impunity".

"No matter how much you know, no matter how well you know you, no matter how many times you took your big power across the mouth, it still hurts. […] And the message passes five out of five: this notion of consent, you do not intend to let it pass ”, rages the author at the opening of her text.

"The time has come for the richest to get this beautiful message across: the respect we owe them will now extend to their dicks stained with the blood and shit of the children they rape", asserts she still, scathing. "It's been months that you suffer from the fact that Adèle Haenel took the floor to tell her story of child actress, from her point of view," she believes.

"The powerful love rapists"

“All the bodies seated that evening in the hall are summoned for one purpose: to verify the absolute power of the powerful. And the powerful love rapists. Finally, those who look like them, those who are powerful. We don't love them despite the rape and because they have talent. We find talent and style because they are rapists. We love them for that, "fumes the one that the Academy of Caesar had refused to see sponsor one of its female and male hopes appointed in 2020.

The novelist also greeted the mistress of ceremony Florence Foresti, who dared to comment on the Polanski affair during the ceremony, taking "the risk of putting the profession on its back." The author deplores the silence of others: "everyone is silent, everyone smiles", "it is always the law of silence that prevails".

And to recall that "if the child rapist was the housekeeper then there is no neighborhood: police, prison, thunderous statements, defense of the victim and general condemnation. But if the rapist is a powerful one: respect and solidarity ”.

The director of Baise-moi is also shocked that the Caesar Academy has "dared to summon two directors who have never received and will probably never receive the award for best achievement to give the prize to Roman fucking Polanski".

"When Adèle Haenel got up, it was sacrilege on the march," welcomed the novelist, welcoming "the most beautiful image in forty-five years of ceremony". "Because you can show it to us in all tones, your imbecility of separation between man and artist - all victims of rape of artists know that there is no miraculous division between the violated body and the creative body, ”says the novelist again. And to conclude: "The world that you created to rule over it like shabby people is unbreathable. We get up and break. It's over. We wake up. We are leaving. We're yelling. We fuck you ”.

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