The former minister gave an interview within the framework of the 5th anniversary of the #MeToo movement Sunday newspaperon October 9, where she looks back on her fight against her ex-husband, economist Thomas Piketty.
“I am a woman who, like the vast majority, has faced a series of sexist and sexual assaults since the age of 19,” Orelli Filippetti said. As part of the fifth anniversary of the #MeToo movement, the former Culture Minister returned to the domestic violence she says she suffered in an interview with her ex-husband, economist Thomas Piketty. Sunday newspaper , this October 9. The latter filed a complaint against him in 2009. The complaint was closed without further action.
In the video, Aurelie Filippetti claims she was “sanctioned” after rejecting Jerome Cahuzac’s “persistent advances”.
For the weekly newspaper, he remembered the particularly long court process and his own guilt in front of the facts, which pushed him to remain silent for a long time. Aureli Filippetti thus explains that he “felt the shame” that is typical of many victims and assures that very few people supported him, especially within the socialist party of which he was a member. “Besides a few signs of solidarity, which I can count on the fingers of one hand, I have faced a wall of indifference in the political world. It didn’t help me to speak,” he said. After all, it was the #MeToo movement that propelled him to power. It “helped get rid of that guilt,” he continued. Victims are told to file a complaint, and of course they should, but you have to get over the shame first.”
Aureli Filippetti then spoke about her other defamation lawsuit against Thomas Piketty. Asked about this case in 2019 at a conference filmed at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) in Toulouse, the economist replied: According to the former Minister of Culture, words invented from scratch, who started the second legal battle for that reason. On May 25, 2022, Thomas Piketty was sentenced for defamation to pay a symbolic euro to Orelli Filippetti and to reimburse her legal costs in the amount of 3,500 euros.
In the video, Camille Lelouch talks about domestic violence, of which she was a victim
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Thomas Pickett has since appealed to the Court of Cassation to challenge the court’s decision. “There is enormous pressure to silence women who speak out (…) Coincidentally, Thomas Piketty’s cassation complaint was just sent to me, a few days after I appeared on the TV show,” asks Aurelie Filippetti. “A maneuver to make people believe that the verdict is not final,” said the politician on the eve of the third court battle.
Source: Le Figaro
