the essential
At the microphone of BFM TV, Brigitte Macron spoke for the first time about the Mazan rape affair. The wife of the President of the Republic wished to provide her support to Gisèle Pélicot and to all women victims of violence.
On this international day to combat violence against women, Brigitte Macron spoke for the first time about the Mazan rape affair. While 20 years of imprisonment were requested against Dominique Pelicot by the public prosecutor this Monday, November 25, the wife of the President of the Republic declared that “this trial was essential”, at the microphone of BFMTV.
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She wanted to provide “her unconditional support to all women”, believing “that things needed to be said and they are”. Saying she is behind in this area, Brigitte Macron assured that she took the cause to heart. “It's true that we see me more in the field of childhood and adolescence but I am with all women in all the struggles. Everywhere we go in the world we see to what extent it is necessary that “We are fighting because rights (of women, editor's note) are increasingly in decline,” she told our colleagues.
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“We have to go further”
Earlier, it was Michel Barnier who expressed his admiration for Gisèle Pélicot during a visit to the Maison des femmes at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. “In recent months, the French have been deeply marked by courage incredible by Gisèle Pélicot”, in reference to the extraordinary trial and the international echo of the trial.
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In the wake of the Prime Minister, the government announced new measures to combat violence against women, including one relating to chemical submission. He also advocated zero tolerance towards this violence and believed that it was necessary to “go further”. Faced with the “still little-known question of chemical submission”, the head of government announced the reimbursement by Health Insurance of detection kits “in several departments”, on an experimental basis and according to a schedule yet to be defined.
