Paris (AFP)
A few dozen feminists blocked Tuesday night a Paris premiere of the film "J'accuse" by Roman Polanski to denounce the director targeted by new charges of rape, AFP found.
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 and TV personalities.
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