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In a press release, the #MeTooThéâtre collective calls for demonstrations in front of the Comédie-Française on January 29, following the death threats made by resident Nâzim Boudjenah against environmentalist MP Sandrine Rousseau.
During the hearing of Eric Ruf, General Administrator of the Comédie-Française, before the commission of inquiry relating to violence committed in the cinema, audiovisual, live performance, fashion and advertising sectors , its president, the environmentalist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, revealed that she had been threatened with death by Nâzim Boudjenah, a resident of the Comédie-Française. She filed a complaint. The actor will be judged on June 6.
The Paris criminal court had already sentenced Nâzim Boudjenah in 2021 to six months of suspended imprisonment for death threats against his former partner, Marie Coquille-Chambel. He was acquitted of the violence for which he was prosecuted. In the wake of Sandrine Rousseau's revelations, Marie Coquille-Chambel announced that she had again filed a complaint against the actor, following new death threats. The complaint is under investigation.
“This affair happened outside the Comédie-Française, so it does not fall under my responsibility”explained Eric Ruf, accompanied by Michel Roseau, its general director, during a hearing which lasted around forty minutes, and the entirety of which can be found in the video below.
“Continuing to pay with public money an employee who is no longer employed is not acceptable and clearly reveals the absurd situation into which everyone is plunged in the face of this lack of position”underlines the #MeTooThéâtre collective in a press release, which calls for a rally in front of the Comédie-Française on January 29 at 7 p.m. “to declare forcefully that rape culture is a period that will be over with the force of our voices, sooner or later, with or without them”.
Marie Coquille-Chambel is currently with the founding members of the collective on the stage of the Théâtre de Belleville, in Paris, in The Histrionics. They take to the stage to make their activism against sexist and sexual violence and harassment in the theater world a show full of humor and panache.
