{"id":3582,"date":"2022-06-09T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obadiastasi.com\/the-excesses-of-metoo-depp-heard-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T18:04:38","slug":"the-excesses-of-metoo-depp-heard-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obadiastasi.com\/en\/the-excesses-of-metoo-depp-heard-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The excesses of #MeToo – Depp\/Heard trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The excesses of #MeToo – Depp\/Heard trial<\/h1>\n
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Five years after the democratization of the #MeToo movement, this phenomenon has become eminently political. Johnny Depp has been banned from a large number of movie sets before he’s even been judged, so is this the embodiment of #MeToo excesses? Does the harassment and threats against Amber Heard for denouncing the American actor’s violence call into question women’s freedom of speech? The debate is open.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Justice in the media, not in the courtroom<\/h2>\n

According to Maitre Sophie Obadia<\/a>, if French justice comes to such a caricature with “trial-emojis”, it will be the end of the rule of law. In fact, according to Sophie Obadia, we are in a new era where excessive staging of trials is leading us to stop judging on evidence. Proof, however, is the rule of law.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The status of speech and the status of truth<\/h2>\n

Sophie Obadia explains that in France, the relationship with the truth is very different from that in the United States. In France, we can lie, but in the United States it’s perjury. What’s more, the Depp\/Heard trial is a defamation suit; we’re judging a media act, not a case of sexual violence. What’s more, the excessive staging of this trial distracts us from reality. We’ve come a long way from the French method, according to which the search for truth is based on evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>