A few dozen feminists blocked Tuesday night a Paris preview of the film "J'accuse" by Roman Polanski to denounce the director targeted by a new case of rape, noted AFP.
"In this cinema we glorify the rapists"
Shouting "Polanski rapist, guilty cinemas", about forty activists blocked the entrance of the cinema "Le Champo" in the Latin Quarter, carrying placards on which one could read "in this cinema one glorifies the rapists" or "Polanski persecutes women ". The activists also wrote on a placard the names of Polanski's accusers, including Valentine Monnier, who says she was "beaten" and raped by the Franco-Polish director in 1975 at the age of eighteen, while she had come to Switzerland to ski with a friend. A charge refuted by the filmmaker's lawyer.
Premieres were held in Paris on Tuesday, the main one being organized at the UGC Normandie cinema, on the Champs-Elysées, in the presence of actors such as Vincent Perez, Michaël Youn and Pierre Richard, journalists Anne Sinclair and Guillaume Durand. personalities like Jean Veil, son of Simone Veil.