The Green MP elected in Paris, Sandrine Rousseau, had her photo taken near a sign proclaiming “Sardou, shut up”, on the sidelines of the rally against the pension reform project in the capital this Thursday. It was for her to react to the intervention of the singer, the day before, on BFMTV.
Green MP Sandrine Rousseau marched this Thursday with the hundreds of thousands of Parisian demonstrators against the pension reform project this Thursday. Among the images and slogans of the procession, a snapshot caught particular attention. In a photo relayed on Twitter by the environmentalist parliamentarian, we see Sandrine Rousseau, smiling, pointing to a sign – made and brandished by a third person – proclaiming: “Sardou, shut up”.
The Europe Écologie-Les Verts parliamentarian elected in Paris explained on our set this Thursday evening the reasons why she had posed under this apostrophe to the singer.
“The Shepherdess’s Answer to the Shepherd”
She actually intended to give the reply to the artist after his appearance on BFMTV the day before. “It was a response from shepherdess to shepherd,” she introduced. Wednesday evening, Michel Sardou was very critical of the elected environmentalist, and even mocking about her husband.
“I wonder what Sandrine Rousseau’s husband is missing. Honestly… Shouldn’t we take a walk to help this poor guy? We shouldn’t organize something, a solidarity fund to say ‘my poor boy, why did you fall?’ ‘Who are you in life?’ ‘The husband of Sandrine Rousseau’. ‘Oh, my poor old man, ohlalala'”, thus mocked the singer, who indicated that he was an “ecologist” but did not adhere to “political ecology”.
Sandrine Rousseau notes “a problem with part of this generation”
Returning to these remarks after the rally against the pension reform project, Sandrine Rousseau tried to clarify hers, without personalizing the debate. Assuring not to have been hurt by the sequence, she pointed:
“What I’m just telling myself is that there really is a problem with part of this generation – not all – who have totally ignored the IPCC reports on climate, ecological issues, used as much as ‘it was possible, for once, the social protection system and who now comes to teach us lessons’.
“Frankly, I think they should let us change the world, because it needs to,” she continued.
The old world, then, Michel Sardou? “Yes”, retorted Sandrine Rousseau after being asked the question, then evoking an old world “which did us some favors but now it’s over”.
