Overview
- A backstage clip published Monday by the weekly Public shows the First Lady telling Ary Abittan they would eject the "sales connes" who disrupted his show.
- Four #NousToutes members interrupted the comedian’s Saturday performance at Paris’s Folies Bergère while wearing masks labeled "violeur" and chanting "Abittan violeur."
- Brigitte Macron attended Abittan’s Sunday show with her daughter Tiphaine Auzière, the day after the protest action.
- Abittan was accused of rape in 2021, and after a three-year investigation the case was dismissed with a non-lieu, a decision confirmed on appeal earlier this year.
- LFI deputy Sarah Legrain condemned the First Lady’s remarks on X, underscoring renewed debate over disruptive protest methods and the public standing of figures cleared by the courts.