This Tuesday, November 19, 2024, Yann Barthès hosted a new episode of Quotidien on TMC. The opportunity to meet Jean-Michel Aphatie, columnist of the show, who that evening returned to the Mazan rape trial.
Dor several weeks, 51 men have been on trial for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who was drugged by her husband. The latter invited individuals to his home to sexually assault his wife. “I would like to quote this sentence from Gisèle Pelicot, because it is a sentence that has a future. 'It is high time that the macho, patriarchal society, which trivializes rape, changes'”reads the columnist.
Jean-Michel Aphatie returns to the Pelicot affair
And for Jean-Michel Aphatie, this message “is an effective, spectacular, moving response to all those who say: '#MeToo, fed up, men don't know what to do anymore, all this has to stop'. I'm not going to name names. But there are a lot of idiots who said that”launches the columnist, thus saluting the courage and determination of this woman who accepted that all French people see her face to change the shame of the camp.
This is not the first time that Jean-Michel Aphatie has taken a stand for defend women victims of sexual violence. Remember, in his work The Amateurs (Flammarion), the journalist devoted no less than three chapters to the rape complaint filed against Nicolas Hulot in 2018.
The Quotidien columnist committed to the fight against sexual violence
When the complaint was filed, Nicolas Hulot was then Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition. He had been appointed under Édouard Philippe and therefore Emmanuel Macron. By discovering that his minister was the subject of rape accusations, the president would have been “with marble serenity”in the words of the spokesperson for the Élysée in 2018.
A reaction judged then “chilling” for Jean-Michel Aphatie who thus calls into question “the very functioning of the State” Who “seems to have failed”. “I am surprised that we can appoint a minister without having first verified that he was not the subject of any complaint. And that we can ignore a complaint of rape when we become aware of it.”
