Shortly after the election of the “rebellious” deputy for the presidency of the finance committee of the National Assembly on Thursday, June 30, Rokhaya Diallo had discussed on RTL “sources within LFI” questioning his attitude “For several years”.
Le Monde with AFP
The deputy La France Insoumise (LFI) Eric Coquerel denounces in a gallery in the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) Sunday July 3 of “unfounded rumors” concerning his behavior towards women. “I do this gallery to say that I have never exercised violence or a physical or psychic constraint to obtain a report, which characterizes the gateway to a tort behavior in the field of sexist and sexual violence”, writes Mr. Coquerel, saying to himself “forced to speak for the first time”.
The LFI sexual violence committee defended deputy Eric Coquerel on Thursday, just elected president of the National Assembly Finance Committee, against “rumors about his behavior with women”, assuring that he never received a report on it.
“Several editors have conducted journalistic surveys”, underlines the deputy, a very close to the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “Nothing has ever been released for lack of having found a testimony that can be compared to behavior Delicational, a fortiori criminal. This rumor was however relaunched by an investigation into sexism at LFI in the Journal Causette in September 2018. The journalist evokes two brief anonymous testimonies about a deputy also anonymous guilty of slippages, Limit of harassment. I did not worry too much at the time of this article which it was said to be concerned, because it was visibly botched. “
” no public testimony “
Consequently, writes Eric Coquerel, “how to react to a rumor which is not based on any complaint, no report to the internal cell of LFI, despite frequent calls and communications of LFI to be able to do so, no public testimony , no serious journalistic investigation results in more than five years but which it is explained that only LFI’s silence and its refusal to conduct an investigation would explain it? “
The deputy also explains that he has felt constrained to express himself, for the first time publicly, by an intervention on RTL Thursday