Criticized and insulted for a tweet about this Iranian student arrested after taking off her clothes in protest, the environmentalist MP responded to the Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi.
“We don’t call a deputy a bitch.” EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau reframed Marjane Satrapi, this Friday, November 8, after the Franco-Iranian artist insulted her against a backdrop of controversy linked to the situation of women in Iran.
The realist and author took the elected environmentalist to task for a tweet relating to the arrest of an Iranian student who had stripped down to her underwear to protest against the Islamic dress code imposed by the regime.
“Everyone booed you”
“Our body, and everything we put on – or not – to clothe it, belongs to us. Strength to Iranian women, to Afghan women, to all those who suffer oppression,” Sandrine Rousseau wrote on Twitter on November 3 .
A post which made Marjane Satrapi angry, judging its message ambiguous. “Everyone has the right to be stupid, but in this case it is better to keep quiet,” she scathed on Instagram, recalling that Sandrine Rousseau had been booed two years ago, in a Parisian gathering in tribute to the young Mahsa Amini.
“You spoke, and everyone booed you because a few days earlier, you had declared that the veil is the 'embellishment' of a woman. Everywhere, you explained that you had been booed because you are a woman (…) If you were booed, it’s because you were stupid,” said the author of the successful comic strip. Persepolis – adapted to cinema.
“We do not have to insult an MP. Since this video, I have had to cancel public speaking engagements because I was threatened with death,” reacted Sandrine Rousseau on the set of BFMTV.
“This woman has incredible courage. There is no doubt about the fact that Iranian women suffer oppression,” the MP continued to clarify her position on the subject of the veil. “If we said tomorrow that the veil was no longer prohibited, not all Iranian women would take it off, that’s what I’m saying,” she assured.
