Deborah de Robertis was fined 2,000 euros, including 1,000 suspended, by the court in Tarbes. The Franco-Luxembourgish performer appeared naked in 2018 in front of the Grotto of the Sanctuary of Lourdes. "We are going to appeal", reacted immediately his lawyer Me Marie Dosé, stressing "(that) this is the first criminal conviction of his client. "
The 36-year-old artist has been released several times after similar performances, notably in 2017 after showing her sex at the Louvre museum, in front of the Mona Lisa. On August 31, 2018, she had stripped naked, her hands clasped and her head covered with a blue veil, at the entrance to the Grotto of the sanctuary where, according to Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary had appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. .
Already several reminders to the law in the past
People had intervened to cover up his nudity and called the police. Then the sanctuary had lodged a complaint, condemning "an act of exhibitionism which shocked the faithful present", and denouncing an "allegedly artistic" approach. "This decision goes against the jurisprudence that is emerging today around sexual exhibition", said Thursday Me Dosé, indicating that recently the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation had "definitively ratified the release of 'a Femen'.
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- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) December 11, 2016“The criminal courts are not there to decide who is an artist or who is not. Freedom of expression must not endure disproportionate interference, ”declared the lawyer, repeating the terms of her plea of June 26, during the hearing before the Tarbes criminal court. In 2014 and 2016, the performer was the subject of recalls to the law, which are not convictions, for two stripped actions at the Musée d'Orsay, where she had imitated the paintings "The origin of the world" by Gustave. Courbet and “Olympia” by Edouard Manet. The Sanctuary of Lourdes did not wish to react to this condemnation.
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