The controversies surrounding the appointment of Gérald Darmanin are far from over. Nearly 170 parliamentarians from the majority defend Wednesday in a forum the presumption of innocence including for the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, accused of rape, an appointment that the former Keeper of the Seals Rachida Dati denounces as the "worst symbols".
"Welcome to the rape ministry"
The signatories of this column in the newspaper Le Monde stress that "the new government is the subject of particularly violent attacks on the part of demonstrators who denounce the appointment of two sovereign ministers", Gérald Darmanin and Eric Dupond-Moretti (Justice ), very critical of the #MeToo movement. Led by LREM MPs Alexandra Louis and Anne-Laurence Petel, they denounce "slogans as unworthy and defamatory as" Welcome to the ministry of rape "," Rapists in prison, not in government "or" The culture of rape on the move " " Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he respects the “excitement and anger” of feminists after Gérald Darmanin's arrival at the Interior Ministry, but the head of state defended this appointment in the name of the presumption of innocence for which he considers himself the "guarantor". "There is also a relationship of trust, from man to man," he said.
Opposition between policies
The parliamentarians claim to be committed since 2017 "to advance equality between women and men and to fight against sexual and gender-based violence", but plead that we must move forward on these subjects "without giving up what we are: the rule of law ”. "The presumption of innocence is protected by our Constitution, the same one which enshrines the principle of equality between women and men", they underline, adding that "popular retribution is not justice". Among the signatories are the leader of LREM deputies Gilles Le Gendre, as well as walkers Marie Lebec, Roland Lescure or Aurore Bergé, as well as senator LREM Julien Bargeton, Olivier Becht (Agir) or the MoDem Mohamed Laqhila.
Former Sarkozy Minister Rachida Dati considers, in another forum also published in Le Monde , that Emmanuel Macron, by appointing Gérald Darmanin to this post "sends the worst symbols considering that a suspicion of rape, harassment and breach of trust would "not be an obstacle" to running the country. " “What message should be sent to the victims when we know the role of the police in combating gender-based and sexual violence, in particular in receiving complaints and conducting investigations? "Asks the former LR candidate for mayor of Paris, who subscribes" to the words of (the feminist activist) Caroline De Haas when she affirms that the only crime for which we accept this is rape ".
The former Minister of Justice recalls that "at the start of the five-year term, ministers were dismissed in a few weeks for court cases without being sentenced", including the head of the MoDem François Bayrou and the deputy MoDem Marielle de Sarnez, both indicted in a case of allegedly fictitious European parliamentary assistants. The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, affirmed on France Inter that he did not know "not if there was rape or not and, obviously, the presumption of innocence must be guaranteed. But that is not the only principle in criminal law, we must also guarantee fairness and balance between the parties ”. "How do you want there to be a balance between the parties when you have one who becomes Minister of the Interior who is going to have all the information on an investigation of which he is himself a party, and a woman who is now vilified by the supporters of the Head of State? He asked.
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