INTERVIEW
Guest of Europe 1 with the Secretary of State for Equality between women and men Marlène Schiappa, the journalist Caroline Fourest returned in particular to the controversy that followed the Cesar ceremony and the prize for the best realization attributed to Roman Polanski. If she understands the anger of the feminists vis-a-vis the statuette granted to the scenario writer accused of rapes, she confides however to have been disturbed by the environment of this ceremony where, according to her, "the poison victim was at work everywhere".
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"We feel that this evening has freed all the demons we feared a little," explains Caroline Fourest. "On the one hand there are those who no longer want to hear about the slightest nuance between a creator and his work, and those who explain to us that no longer consider as trivial the fact of being multi-accused or of having recognized relationships with underage girls after #MeToo is totalitarianism. It's another excess. "
"We no longer judge these cases according to the gravity of the facts, but according to the identity of the person who committed them"
Beyond the Polanski case, the journalist regretted the speaking of actress Aissa Maïga, who took advantage of the awarding of a prize to deliver a speech committed to more diversity in French cinema. "The victim poison was everywhere. I saw it when an actress comes to count the blacks in the room, but does not see them on stage trying to triumph, does not see that the film Les Misérables triumphs, but does not see no more than some feminists are capable of focusing on Polanski, but never wanted to approach the masculinist pans of Ladj Ly, for fear of flattering racism, "she adds. In 2011, the director was sentenced to imprisonment for kidnapping and forcible confinement.
In addition, deplores Caroline Fourest again, this "victim poison" is also present "in people who are worried about anti-Semitism and who think that I accuse is necessary, but who ask us to choose between the fight against anti-Semitism and feminism. " However, adds the journalist, "it is not possible no, more because it is the same reasoning identity and victim that makes that one no longer judges these cases according to the gravity of the alleged facts, but according to the identity of the person who committed them. "