Diane de Vignemont
@Diane2V
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freelance journalist • ✍️ 🇬🇧 @NewLinesMag @Prospect_UK @Jacobin 🇫🇷 @Libe @ArretsurImages @Humanite_fr @CausetteLeMag @TETUmag
Paris, France
Joined February 2012
France's mass rape trial is not just a pursuit of justice; it is a crucible of solidarity and sisterhood, uniting women from all walks of life in shared outrage and resolve. My latest for @NewLinesMag
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An Avignon courthouse has become a site of pilgrimage for French women seeking catharsis and community
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With the spotlight once again on Trump and Clinton’s friendship with Epstein and the impact of the scandal on their political careers, we should (once again) ask, as I did in @Prospect_uk: why does the media coverage focus on the men instead of the girls? https://t.co/gLFNhbmdvA
prospectmagazine.co.uk
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
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New Epstein emails that mention Donald Trump have been released by House Democrats. As @Diane2V wrote in September, the people often missing from the political debate are Epstein’s victims. https://t.co/6ngHtbBAqb
prospectmagazine.co.uk
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
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The Louvre burglars may have escaped with eight glittering relics of empire, but the larger theft has been unfolding for years, and exposes the slow erosion of France’s state-funded culture. My latest, for @newlinesmag
https://t.co/2Edid8uNin
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The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
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How could thieves pull off the heist of the century at the Louvre? @Diane2V argues that the state made it easy — by cutting funding and hollowing out the institutions that guard cultural heritage in a nation obsessed by it.
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The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
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The Louvre burglars may have escaped with eight glittering relics of empire, but the larger theft has been unfolding for years, and exposes the slow erosion of France’s state-funded culture. My latest, for @newlinesmag
https://t.co/2Edid8uNin
newlinesmag.com
The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
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Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. Read @diane2v's look into the former French president's ties to Libya, and the plane crash that helped bring Sarkozy down, in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/0qhmV4Md99
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The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
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"It is a personal triumph that she chose to speak up, and a tragedy that doing so came at such a cost." How we treat victims and how we allow powerful people to treat them isn't a "tragedy". It's not fated. We can and should do something about that. https://t.co/gS8waeXiij
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Had Virginia Guiffre been alive when her book came out she would have been torn apart. Again. That, more than Prince Andrew graciously declining to use his titles for now, makes me livid. This is where the conversation needs to go - back to Virginia. https://t.co/UyYcQxO8Ej
newstatesman.com
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
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As former French president Nicolas Sarkozy heads to jail today, read my @newlinesmag piece on the 1989 terror attack that led to his fall ⤵️
Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. A refresher on his Libya ties and the plane crash that helped take him down, by @diane2v in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/hDLB3xcPGb
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Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. A refresher on his Libya ties and the plane crash that helped take him down, by @diane2v in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/hDLB3xcPGb
newlinesmag.com
The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
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With the spotlight on Prince Andrew’s alleged conduct, it’s worth re-reading @Diane2V’s take on the Epstein birthday book—why does the media coverage focus on the men instead of the girls? https://t.co/6ngHtbBAqb
prospectmagazine.co.uk
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
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my latest, for Jacobin Magazine
The justice system shouldn’t be afraid of popular juries. The jury ruling on the appeal for France’s biggest ever rape case helped to stage a public confrontation with sexual assault in French society.
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In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury. The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom. My latest, for @Jacobin
https://t.co/k2mln7b6Ln
jacobin.com
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass...
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In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury. The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom. My latest, for @Jacobin
https://t.co/k2mln7b6Ln
jacobin.com
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass...
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In my latest, for @Jacobin, I returned to the Pelicot trial - which, this time around, took place in front of a peer jury
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass judgement on the rapists.
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A retrial in the landmark French abuse case of Gisèle Pelicot is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court, writes @Diane2V. https://t.co/j9pBOKCFF3
prospectmagazine.co.uk
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @Diane2V reports on an appeal in the Gisèle Pelicot case. Plus: @arusbridger and @lionelbarber speak to Jim Waterson about his successful media start-up London Centric. https://t.co/GVfWs7mITk
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In my latest for @Prospect_uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial. Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers didn’t just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors.
prospectmagazine.co.uk
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
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Nique sa mère le blizzard
MP Aurélien Pradié (formerly LR) officially launches his own political party called ‘Les Bâtisseurs’ (The Builders).
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