The Impact of #MeToo in France: An Interview with Lénaïg Bredoux | Aida Alami
▻https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/13/the-impact-of-metoo-in-france-an-interview-with-lenaig-bredoux
In 2011, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested in a Manhattan hotel on rape charges, Lénaïg Bredoux, a Paris-based reporter, watched the reporting in dismay. At the time, the French media largely devoted itself to criticizing the American judicial system instead of investigating allegations that had dogged Strauss-Kahn for years. Moved to action, she contacted the French journalist Tristane Banon, who, in 2007, publicly accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2003 and that is how Bredoux uncovered a culture of silence inside the French Socialist Party. Source: The New York Review of (...)