Tribune supporting Depardieu: Pierre Richard also distances himself from the text and its author

A new signatory of the platform supporting Gérard Depardieu backs down. After Charles Berling, Carole Bouquet and Gérard Darmon expressed their reservations about its content and about the man behind its initiative, the actor Yannis Ezziadi, it is up to Pierre Richard to distance himself from the text this Sunday, December 31.

“If I could have hurt certain people, I am sincerely sorry, even angry,” writes Pierre Richard on his X account (ex Twitter).

“Unfortunately, this text does not reflect the support I have for all victims of sexual assault. It does not measure the intensity of their pain or the path of suffering for it to be recognized,” says the person who shared an appearance with Gérard Depardieu in several Francis comedies. Veber (The Goat, The Compadres, The Fugitives).

A “movement light years away from my commitments”

After signing the column published on Monday in The Figaro, Pedro Ricardo The title of Butterfly Ambassador was withdrawn from him, an association that fights against child abuse. “This forum says that whatever he does or says, we must leave Gérard Depardieu alone, because he is a sacred and supposedly untouchable monster,” justified the president of the association Laurent Boyet.

The text published at the beginning of the week was also the subject of a contradicting opinion released on Friday to denounce the “law of silence.” Initially signed by 600 artists (Angèle, Louane, Pomme, Médine…), it now has 2,500 signatories.

Pierre Richard explains that he agreed to sign the initial column solely in the name of the presumption of innocence to which every citizen, including Gérard Depardieu, is entitled. He is the subject of three complaints of rape and sexual assault and is accused in one of these cases.

the actor of Tall blonde with black shoe. He also claims to have “signed without knowing the ideological movement in which the pen of the petition develops, a movement light years away from my commitments,” in reference to Yannis Ezziadi, an actor who also works as an editorial writer for the ultra-conservative magazine. Talkative.