Paris (AFP)
Number 3 of the LR party Aurélien Pradié criticizes the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti for being "terribly silent" on domestic violence since he took office, in a letter released Friday by Le Parisien and consulted by AFP.
The deputy for Lot also denounces, in this letter he will send to the minister on Saturday, the past positions of the bar tenor on the #MeToo movement and his criticisms of the offense of sexist contempt, created in August 2018.
"Your commitments, declarations and recent positions, often brutal, going well beyond your profession as a lawyer, deeply worry those who carry out this difficult fight to protect women and their children victims of domestic violence", continues the secretary general of the LR party.
Mr. Dupond-Moretti admitted Friday to have "had a flowery language" in the past. "I can plead guilty, it was in other functions" but "I never had sexist language. If you take my statements, I have always advocated total equality of rights".
In an interview with GQ magazine in January 2019, he believed that "the #MeToo movement has made it possible to free speech and that's great. But there are also some" follasses "who tell bullshit and engage the honor of 'a guy who cannot defend himself because he is already crucified on social networks ".
In 2018, the future Keeper of the Seals also deemed it "mind-boggling" that whistling a woman becomes a criminal offense. "It costs 90 bullets? That must be settled by decency, not by law!", He insisted on CNews.
Aurélien Pradié also returns to his bill against domestic violence adopted at the end of the year and aimed in particular to generalize bracelets anti-rapprochement against spouses and ex violent.
MP LR accuses the government of being "unable to deploy them" and demands an appointment at the Chancellery.
Since the establishment of the new government, feminist demonstrations have taken place and forums have followed one another to be indignant at the appointment to the Ministry of the Interior of Gérald Darmanin, targeted by accusations of rape, or to denounce past remarks by Eric Dupond-Moretti.
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