About thirty people gathered in front of the town hall on Thursday. - ACCORSINI JEANNE / SIPA

  • The very evening of this event, Christophe Girard, deputy for Culture to the mayor of Paris, announced that he had decided to resign.
  • This Friday, Anne Hidalgo decided to take legal action for "serious public insults" against the town hall.

The situation is bogged down at the town hall and the majority of Anne Hidalgo cracks after the resignation of his deputy, Christophe Girard with the backdrop, now, a judicial component. The mayor of Paris decided on Friday to take legal action for "serious public insults" pronounced against the town hall, the day after a demonstration qualifying the Town Hall as "pedoland", she announced in a press release . She also said that the two elected officials behind the rally were now "outside the municipal majority".

Christophe Girard, Culture Assistant to the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced that he had decided to resign Thursday, after attacks by elected environmentalists following his hearing in March in the investigation “for rape of minors” aimed at Gabriel Matzneff.

"I won't let anything go"

" That's enough ! Yesterday, outrageous words were uttered, infamous banners were waved. All this undermines our values, ”denounces Anne Hidalgo in this press release. “I won't let anything go. It is about respect for the fundamental principles that support our democratic life, respect for the law and, fundamentally, the solidity of the pact on which our institutions are based, she adds. I will bring before the courts the serious public insults that have been directed against the mayor of Paris. "

I am disgusted. In what democracy do we live where the law is trampled by rumor, confusion and suspicion? All my support to my friend Christophe Girard.

- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) July 23, 2020

In addition, the mayor of Paris "takes note of the fact that the two elected officials sitting in the group of the Greens in the Council of Paris", in this case Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu and Alice Coffin, both feminist activists and newly elected, at the 'origin of this gathering Thursday, "thus place themselves outside the municipal majority."

This Friday during the Council of Paris, the prefect of police Didier Lallement wished to express in session a "Republican salute" to the address of Christophe Girard triggering heavy applause in the ranks. Anne Hidalgo has also risen to pay tribute to her ex-deputy. The elected EELV of the 12th arrondissement, Alice Coffin, for her part, has not stopped shouting "Shame, shame, shame".

From now on, according to a communist at AFP, "the question which arises is on whom Anne Hidalgo can count within the environmentalists? ". For David Belliard, transport assistant to Anne Hidalgo and EELV candidate for mayor of Paris, EELV's participation in the majority is no doubt: "There is no particular subject for us, we continue to to work ”and“ to be part of it ”.

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  • Anne Hidalgo
  • Paris city hall
  • Gabriel Matzneff
  • EELV
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