法国第一夫人道歉

据法新社12月15日报道，法国总统马克龙的夫人布丽吉特15日晚表示，如果她的言语“伤害到了”性暴力“受害者”，对此表示“抱歉”。这是她首次在媒体采访中就其言论引起的争议表态，她曾将一些女权主义者称为“肮脏的蠢货”。

法国第一夫人布丽吉特 资料图 图源：视觉中国

报道称，这位法国第一夫人说：“如果我伤到了受害女性，我感到抱歉。我真正关心的正是她们。”

Brigitte Macron, the first lady of France, apologized on Monday night for offending feminist protesters during a private conversation last week, but she also said that she should be able to speak freely when with friends.

"I am sorry if I have hurt women victims," Macron said in a short video published by the French news outlet Brut.

她还表示，当初的谈话是在私人场合进行的，言论也是只针对“四个人”。

报道提及，这位法国总统夫人在12月初曾有一些言论，是涉及一些女权主义者打断喜剧演员阿里·阿比唐演出的话题。2021年底，阿比唐曾被指控强奸了一名年轻女性。在三年的调查后，最后的结果是不予起诉，但其重返舞台经常遭到女权主义者们的质疑。

12月6日，四名女权主义者戴着有阿里·阿比唐画像和“强奸犯”字样的面具来到演出现场，喊着“阿比唐强奸犯”的口号，让其表演中断了。

布丽吉特在后台想要安慰这位演员，并且在第二天就演出被打断给演员带来的“恐惧”作出回应。在与阿比唐交谈时，她将打断演出的四名女权主义者称作“肮脏的蠢货”。这一言论被法国Public周刊网站以视频形式公之于众。

Her comments were a response to a video that surfaced online last week showing Macron backstage at a theater with a French comedian, Ary Abittan, whose show had been disrupted the night before by feminist activists. While chatting with him, Macron jokingly described the activists using a term that roughly translates to "stupid bitches".

The show was interrupted by four activists from a feminist collective called NousToutes, which translates to All of Us Women. Abittan was accused of rape in 2021 and has faced opposition since, including after the charges were dismissed by an appeals court in January.

布丽吉特表示，她有“讲话和思考的权利”，但不知道谈话会被拍下来。

她说：“我需要去让他放心。我想要这么做，但是用了拙劣的方式，但当时我实在找不出别的话来说。”

Addressing those comments a week later, Macron said she had been speaking in a private setting, trying to reassure a friend who was afraid of returning to the stage.

Macron acknowledged that her way of comforting Abittan may have been "clumsy" but that she had had "no other words at my disposal at that moment".

Regardless, she added, "I think we have the right to think and the right to speak."

报道还称，在被问道是否对这些言论感到遗憾时，布丽吉特回答说：“我并不后悔。我是共和国总统的妻子，但我首先是我自己。当我在过私人生活时，我可以以不太恰当的方式自由说话。”

When asked if she regretted her words, Macron said no.

"I am indeed the wife of the president of the Republic, but I am also, above all, myself," said Macron. "When I am in private, I can let myself go in a way that is absolutely not adequate," she said.

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