Overview
- In a video interview with Brut, she said she was sorry if victims felt hurt but maintained she could not regret the private words.
- She described the remark as an awkward attempt to reassure Ary Abittan after activists disrupted his show by shouting “Abittan, rapist.”
- She criticized the interruption of performances as a form of censorship and asserted a right to private life and private speech.
- Authorities later discontinued investigations into the 2021 rape allegation against Abittan for lack of evidence, a result activists continue to contest.
- Two feminist groups say they have filed a legal complaint accusing her of insult and denigration, according to local reports, as the dispute intensifies debate over France’s handling of sexual violence.