“Too old to hold a pen, but not old enough…” Leo opposes Patrick Chesney after his speech on the Depardieu case.

On December 7, the explosive documentary about Gerard Depardieu was released on the France 2 TV channel. The holy monster of French cinema, accused of sexually assaulting and raping several women, appears there among victims’ testimonies and other archive footage of him being lewd towards women. First of all, we discover this through a sequence, from a film directed by Jan Moix in South Korea, in which the actor sexualizes a 10-year-old girl while riding a horse. “Women like to ride horses, their clitoris rubs against the drum of the saddle (…) “If [le cheval] running, she’s enjoying herself,” we hear him say, looking at the young woman. The comments, which caused outrage in France, however, that Patrick Chesnay, who signed the forum Le Figaro in defense of the actor, he wanted to “imagine things”.

On Dec. 28, the 76-year-old actor explained to BFTMTV that the quote about the little girl was actually “not that serious.” “We wanted to make it serious because this girl was a hundred meters away and she continued her program. We can disagree, we can be shocked (…) But this is not part of justice, law, or morality,” he declared. This Saturday, January 6, Leo protested his comments on the show “C L’hebdo”, which will be broadcast tonight at 18:55, and the first part of which has already been published on Instagram. “I regret that this old world still has so much power. Because to me they’re cheaters, we can’t say that,” he explains.

“I was a victim”

The singer, who herself was a victim of rape in her youth, said that she was deeply upset by the wave of support for Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Chesne’s speech. “Sorry Patrick Chesnais, he is right my friend when he says. “she’s too old to hold a pen, but not old enough to keep her mouth shut,” he continues in the segment. Sharp words, which he justifies as follows. “I’m sorry, but at the moment we can’t reduce Gerard Depardieu and all of Depardieu to talking about rubbing the clit of a 10-year-old girl who. too far away to hear it. All that we have been able to do over the years with the complicity of an entire community that is being questioned today is unacceptable behavior that destroys. I was a victim of it, I’m not the only one.”