The gendarmes of the Tarn, accused of having wanted to intimidate a high school student who had arrested President Macron on ministers suspected of rape and violence against women, sent an apology to the young woman on the night of Friday to Saturday.

On Friday, uniformed gendarmes entered the high school attended by the young woman, picking her up during a lesson, to talk to her.

“Our action simply aimed to take into account this person, who had presented himself as a victim, to offer him to collect a possible complaint, or failing that to offer him help, support or a relay to meet local associations for him. provide assistance”, defended the gendarmerie around midnight on Facebook and Twitter.

“We would like to apologize to her if our approach to meeting her in high school to exchange was badly perceived and that she considers that we were awkward,” the statement added.

“You put at the head of the state men who are accused of rape and violence against women, why?

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Considered clumsy, this approach of the gendarmes?

At the very least, yes.

Thursday, during a visit by Emmanuel Macron to Gaillac, in the Tarn, Laura had apostrophized him: “You put at the head of the state men who are accused of rape and violence against women, why?

She was referring to the accusations against the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin and the new Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad.

"Please sir, answer me," insisted the high school student, while the president put forward the presumption of innocence, neither of them having been convicted.

The images have been shared thousands of times on social networks, Internet users seizing the question to challenge the president themselves.

But it was the visit of the gendarmes to Laura the next day, in her high school, which swelled the controversy.

Courtesy visit or interrogation?

Contacted by AFP, the young woman could not be reached.

She had explained to the

Parisian

to have been interrupted in the middle of class for an “interview” with the gendarmes in a room of her high school.

The latter would have asked her if she wanted to file a complaint for a sexual assault which she had announced on the sidelines of her exchange with the president.

But according to the young woman, who says she perceived their visit as "intimidation", the conversation quickly focused on her remarks the day before, a gendarme telling her that it "was not to be done".

#laquestiondelaura

Since Thursday, the hashtag #laquestiondelaura has been relayed more than 20,000 times on Twitter.

Many Internet users apostrophize Emmanuel Macron to ask him why he places at the head of the state men suspected of rape and violence against women.

The high school student had herself explained that she had asked this question to Emmanuel Macron during her visit, precisely because it seemed to her that many people were asking questions on this point without being able to obtain a clear answer from the President of the Republic.

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  • Gendarmerie

  • Emmanuel Macron

  • Police

  • High school

  • Violence against women

  • Gerald Darmanin

  • Sexism