- The demonstrators demand that Christophe Girard be suspended from his functions.
- Anne Hidalgo believes that her deputy for Culture "is not targeted by any complaint".
- "At the town hall, they say that it is a non-subject and therefore we will continue our action at the start of the school year", explains the elected environmentalist Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu.
The case is growing and should not end there. "Denial at the mayor of Paris", "Girard Resignation", "Anne you're serious? ": Armed with placards and slogans, several dozen people demonstrated this Thursday in front of the Town Hall to demand the resignation of the Deputy for Culture, Christophe Girard, heard in March in the investigation" for rape of minors Which targets the writer Gabriel Matzneff.
The demonstrators demand that Christophe Girard be suspended from his functions as well as the "opening of an investigation of the General Inspectorate of the City of Paris". They were joined by elected environmentalists, allies of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo.
"We will continue our action at the start of the school year"
"At the town hall they say that it is a non-subject and therefore we will continue our action at the start of the school year", explained the elected environmentalist Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu. "It is not enough to have a clean criminal record to be deputy mayor of Paris, you also need ethical and moral qualities, support for Gabriel Matzneff disqualifies Christophe Girard for this kind of responsibilities", she said added.
In an interview with Le Parisien on Thursday , Anne Hidalgo believes that her deputy for Culture "is not targeted by any complaint". “For me it's a non-subject. We must not play with such serious questions on the basis of rumors, amalgams or stink balls, ”added the mayor.
A defamation complaint must be filed
Investigators interviewed Christophe Girard, secretary general of Maison Yves Saint Laurent between 1986 and 1987, in March, a structure which provided financial support to the writer Gabriel Matzneff in the 1980s, according to several accounts.
Our file on Gabriel Matzneff
The writer is targeted by an investigation for "rape of minors" opened by the Paris prosecutor's office after the publication in January of Vanessa Springora's autobiographical novel in which she describes the relationship under the influence that she maintained when she was a minor , with the writer.
Christophe Girard, who must file a complaint for defamation according to his lawyer, denounces "a militant retribution seeking to substitute the street court for the judicial court".
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- Paris city hall
- Culture
- Pedophilia
- Anne Hidalgo
- Gabriel Matzneff
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