Rachida Dati, mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris -

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A Paris council stuck with cases of rape and sexual assault charges.

Tuesday, while the executive rejected a wish of the opposition carried by the elected Nelly Garnier who asked for the establishment of an independent commission to fight against the abuse of power and sexual violence, which would be committed by elected Parisians, his colleague Rachida Dati (LR) violently attacked the left-wing elected members of the Council of Paris.

“Left accomplice of pedophilia and incest!

", Launched the mayor of the 7th arrondissement, arousing the indignation of the municipal majority who denounced" defamatory "remarks.

" It's a shame "

"Impunity, silence, move around there is nothing to see, it's a shame", was carried away Rachida Dati, president of the group "Change Paris" on the first day of the Council of Paris.

"Accomplices of rape, accomplices of pedophilia, accomplices of incest, yes I maintain it.

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His remarks aroused indignation in the ranks of the majority where the president of the communist and citizen group, Nicolas Bonnet Oulaldj, asked for an apology from the former Minister of Justice for his remarks relating to "defamation", before get a session interruption.

A little earlier, Nelly Garnier had indicated to be "ashamed" for the social left which will have covered everything.

"I am ashamed for you and for this social left which has covered everything. For the left, it is never rape, it is love. It is never pedophilia, it is 'art! "



Poignant intervention by @NellyGarnier on the trivialization of sexual violence in politics.

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- Pierre Liscia (@PierreLiscia) February 3, 2021

"For this left, it's never rape it's love, it's never pedophilia, it's art, it's literature, for months the debates in the within this council are polluted by your inability to act, ”she added.

"The city of Paris has a zero tolerance policy"

The Parisian municipal majority has been splashed in recent months by several accusations of rape, including those targeting Christophe Girard, the former deputy for Culture, dismissed since by the courts because of the statute of limitations.

The former right-hand man of Anne Hidalgo was forced to resign in July 2020 from his deputy post because of his links with the writer accused of pedophilia Gabriel Matzneff.

“The city of Paris has been pursuing a zero tolerance policy against sexual and gender-based violence for years,” assured Hélène Bidard, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of gender equality.

On the question of the exemplary nature of elected officials, "I think we can agree to say that on each bench of this hemicycle there is probably progress to be made", underlined for her part the elected EELV Raphaëlle Rémy -Leleu which the group abstained on the wish of Nelly Garnier.

"We can work on more restrictive and innovative systems to ensure the ethics of elected officials in the face of accusations, sexual harassment and assault," she added.

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