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What the actual fuck, #France? h/t @jessicamwiza #polanski

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1233552613989371905

This is disgraceful and sickening #polanski

https://twitter.com/jessicamwiza/status/1233554718988947456?s=21

https://twitter.com/jessicamwiza/status/1233554718988947456

Polanski’s film “J’accuse” had the most nominations at the César Awards in Paris. He was not there to collect any of the prizes saying he feared a “public lynching” from protesters outside, angered at his links to child sexual abuse.

“Shame on an industry that protects rapists.”

On Friday, the French police fired tear gas outside the Paris concert hall hosting the César Film Awards in a clash with people protesting the director.

#Polanski

“If rape is an art, give #Polanski all the Césars,” a host of French feminist organizations said in an open letter published in a leading newspaper.

Adèle Haenel, who said she’d suffered from sexual abuse in French film industry, walked out after #Polanski won best director, and appeared to say, “It’s a shame.” Others followed, incl Céline Sciamma, director of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” which stars Haenel.

“Distinguishing #Polanski is spitting in the face of all victims,” Adèle Haenel, one of #France’s most prominent young actresses, had told The New York Times recently. “It means raping women isn’t that bad.”