Strongly criticized by some on social networks since his non-response to a question last week at the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Lellouche has decided to speak out. The actor denounces the violence of the attacks he suffered as the recovery of history by the far right.
“A lot of things have been said about me, with insulting violence and shortcuts,” he wrote on Instagram on Monday. Recalling that he had refused to answer a question, which he considered “manipulative and biased”, he said, “I was called a coward, or even a supporter of the extreme right. Which, instantly, was quick to support me like the rope supports the hanged man,” he continues.
Gilles Lellouche then emphasizes that he has never supported, and will never support, “a party or an ideology that advocates hatred, intolerance and discrimination.”
Referring to the reason for his presence in Cannes, a film about the last days of the great resistance fighter Jean Moulin (“Moulin”), the director of “L’Amour ouf” adds again: “I will always defend the values of the Republic and the principles which make our country great”.
On May 18 on the Croisette, RTL recalls, a journalist asked him a double question. “Do you think that it is essential today, in order not to betray the memory of Jean Moulin, to resolutely fight the National Rally?” Then: “Do you also think that La France insoumise, majority on the left, is today the best bulwark against the extreme right, its program also being inspired by the program of the National Council of the Resistance?”
After calling the question “a little biased”, Gilles Lellouche replied: “I have no answer to that, sir”.
He was then criticized for not wanting to condemn the far right, and sometimes nicknamed “Gilles Lelâche”.
