“I love them from 15 to 17 years old, then I start to be suspicious.” Claude Francois’ controversial video resurfaces.

This Monday, January 8th, Judith Godrech took to the set of Quotidien to denounce the comments made by her ex-boyfriend Benoit Jacquet in the 2011 documentary. The actress was only 14 years old when she started the relationship. the director, who was 40 years old at the time. A few years after the end of their story, which lasted almost six years, the film director said the following words in front of Gerard Miller’s camera: do not have the right But he wasn’t giving it away, and even he was very excited about it.” Comments that caused the anger of the actress. “Seeing him talk about my desire. Seeing him turn me into an object, sexualizing me. There was no agreement. There is no agreement for 14,” he complained.

The day after his appearance, a sequence comparing Benoit Jacco’s speech to another celebrity’s speech went viral on social media. This time, Claude Francois shows his “obsession” with young teenage girls without complications. “Tell me this video is fake, please,” wrote Instagram account Gang du clit, which has almost 165,000 followers, and shared the excerpt. “The World of Old Jesters,” we can still read. How many monsters have we praised? How many monsters there are, no doubt, still to be recited in our school books. How many monsters are still to be discovered? By naming “monster,” the feminist review intends to use Judith Godrech’s term.

A girl’s dream

Although many initially believed in a fake video created by artificial intelligence, it really does exist. This is the interview of the singer during the concert given at Carrefour de Rocourt on April 6, 1973. The sequence had already sparked controversy after it was aired in an RTBF documentary released from Sonuma’s archives. the translator of The phone is crying then entrusted his report to women and especially girls. “I’m totally hooked,” you can hear him explain. I am obsessed with the category of girls who come to see me. If it even seems physical, because people say to me, “You like green fruit, you like little girls between 15 and 18, after that they’re old, we don’t talk about it anymore,” I say, end and also its opposite. I loved it until I was 17-18, but after that I started to be careful, God only knows if I have affairs after 18,” he continues with a laugh. The artist explains that after this age, “girls [entre 18-30 ans] start thinking. They are no longer natural. They feel obliged to take a stand. They are no longer such a dream that the girl represents for me.

As the Radio-Canada news channel reported in 2018, Claude Francois’s taste in young girls would never be a secret to those close to him. “He was obsessed with girls at a very young age. Today it would be impossible,” confirmed photographer Jean-Marie Perrier. Like Judith Godrech, many victims denounced the silence that prevailed at the time. Gabriel Matzneff, a prolific 1980s writer, was recently accused of having affairs with very young women when he was in his forties. In the work “Le Consentement” published in 2020, Vanessa Springora talked about her controlling relationship with the author. He was also 15 years old at that time. He looked 40 years old.