The young “rebellious” activist had announced in the night of Monday to Tuesday to give up the nomination in the legislative elections in the Rhône, considering himself the target of a campaign of denigration and harassment on social networks.
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Initially, Taha Bouhafs had himself presented the reasons for his renunciation of a candidacy for the legislative elections, in the 14 e district of the Rhône, in Vénissieux. The 25 -year -old anti -racist activist and journalist, invested by the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), believed that he was the target of a campaign of denigration and harassment on social networks, had decided to throw in the towel.
During the night of May 9 to 10, in the press release which announced the withdrawal of his candidacy, he detailed: “Every day, a new slander, a new insult, a new threat of death, a new accusation. ( …) I would have liked to hold on … (…) Continue to fight. For my part, I tried but I can no longer. “
The journalist working for the media, was very contested, in particular by the extreme right, but also by part of the left, because of his media presence, often virulent, and his condemnation at first instance for “insult public “against a police unionist whom he had treated as” service Arab “. He called on this judgment.
But the case experienced a new twist on Wednesday, May 11. According to information revealed by BFM-TV and Mediapart, it is a reason for a completely different nature which precipitated the renunciation of Taha Bouhafs. The follow -up committee against sexual and sexist violence of rebellious France (LFI) was seized, Saturday, May 7, of a “testimony relating supposed facts of sexual violence against Taha Bouhafs”, according to a statement published by LFI, Wednesday, May 11. The “rebellious” party adds that Taha Bouhafs was “confronted with the accusations he was the subject of this Monday, May 9” and that the interested party withdrew his candidacy “from himself”, “even before the end of our procedure internal “.
” intimidating messages “
In Mediapart, Taha Bouhafs said that this report is entering the list of “slanders” brought against him for several weeks so that he will withdraw his candidacy. “I was already at the end, the report was the last drop that led me to withdraw,” he explains. According to him, it was carried out by “an ex-girlfriend”.
According to the online information site, it is the evening of the Nuts Convention, in Aubervilliers, Saturday, May 7, that a detailed testimony was communicated to the body specializing in sexist and sexual violence . On the other hand, Mediapart reveals that Caroline de Haas, feminist activist and support from the Nuts, received, for her part, “two different testimonies, of people who do not know each other”. She would have informed, on May 2, lfi.
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