Macron in Hot Water for Defending Gérard Depardieu: ‘He Makes France Proud’ – French Film Star Is Facing an Array of Rape and Sexual Assault Allegations
As if the endless array of crises he has faced was not enough, Macron is now mixed in a controversy of his own making.
French President Emmanuel Macron is now under fire for his defense of film star and national culture icon Gérard Depardieu, who is facing multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault.
Macron said Depardieu ‘makes France proud’.
France 24 reported:
“‘You will never see me participate in a manhunt’, Macron told the France 5 broadcaster when asked about possibly stripping the actor of a state award. ‘I hate that kind of thing’, he added.”
Macron said that France’s Legioned to Depardieu in 1996, ‘is not a moral tool’ of Honor,
