French actress and activist Judith Godreche is amongst a bunch of protestors who’ve arrange an illustration exterior the CNC in Paris this morning calling for the group’s head Dominique Boutonnat to be suspended.
Photos of the protest started circulating extensively on social media this morning and present Godreche alongside different demonstrators holding a banner exterior the CNC that reads “Separate the person from the CNC.”
We first reported on impromptu plans by French trade insiders to host an illustration on the CNC in opposition to Boutonnat yesterday alongside a petition that was launched additionally calling for his dismissal.
The petition was launched by an nameless group of activists Sunday afternoon who’ve stated they belong to a number of French trade unions, together with Collectif 50/50 and CGT Spectacle. The petition is personal, so it’s not potential to see who has signed. However the whole quantity now sits at 1300.
The petition refers to 2 current articles within the French newspaper Libération, which discover the authorized trial Boutonnat is ready to face in June over sexual assault allegations. Boutonnat has been beneath investigation for 2 years after being indicted in February 2021 for an alleged sexual assault. In September 2022, the case was taken to trial. Boutonnat denies all fees.
“If Dominique Boutonnat advantages from the presumption of innocence, it nonetheless appears important to us that our predominant establishment units an instance,” the petition reads.
“At a time once we are questioning our practices, and when a fee of inquiry into sexist and sexual violence and harassment in our professions has simply been voted on, we remorse that the incongruity of this case finally ends up definitively discrediting his motion and the proposals he’s about to make.”
The petition ends: “The entire of society is watching us. Our progress, our revolutions will profit everybody. Let’s dwell as much as it.”
Boutonnat was first appointed CNC President in 2019. France’s authorities then gave him a second time period in 2022 — after his indictment. The controversial appointment got here after France’s new Tradition Minister Rima Abdul Malak expressed her help for him. His present time period runs down subsequent yr.