The EELV deputy declared Sunday on France 3 not having been aware of the existence of an informal group of feminist activists who investigated Julien Bayou for three years, according to the daily.
Le Monde with AFP
The deputy Europe Ecology-Les Verts (EELV) Sandrine Rousseau, who had relayed two weeks ago from the accusations of psychological violence targeting her colleague Julien Bayou, strongly disputed, Sunday October 2, the background of a Liberation survey on this case published on Friday. Ms. Rousseau also affirmed on France 3 that she was “absolutely not aware” of the existence of the feminist collective who inquired informally about the number one of the environmentalists, as reported by the daily.
According to Liberation, Julien Bayou, who disputes the accusations of psychological violence against an ex-partner, had lived for three years under the pressure of an informal feminist collective who reproached him for his conduct and investigated his relations with women, going until questioning his old companions. Also according to Liberation, one of the women members of the cell responsible for dealing with the reports of sexual and sexist violence in the party, and who currently educates the case of Julien Bayou, is also part of this informal group having targeted the privacy of the life of MP for Paris.
“An informal group of women”
Sandrine Rousseau notably said about the Liberation Investigation: “(…) I read the article and that is not at all a surveillance, it has nothing to do With a surveillance, and moreover this article seems extremely problematic to me on the bottom, “she added. According to Ms. Rousseau, “it is not a cell, it is an informal group of women who speak to each other. Women have the right to speak to each other and they have the right to protect themselves and as long as justice does not will not be, there is nothing to be condemnable to that “.
EELV’s internal cell was self-Saisie of an investigation into Julien Bayou in July after an email from his ex-partner, from which he separated in November 2021. The case took a new Tour on September 19, when MP Sandrine Rousseau accused her of “behaviors likely to break the moral health of women” on a TV plateau, telling that she “received” the ex-partner of Mr. Bayou at length.
Sunday, the Paris deputy also approved the fact that Julien Bayou “does not speak in the name of the ecological group” during the time of the investigation, justifying this silence in the name of “the protection of the word of women “.
The day after the publication of the article, on Saturday, EELV’s management met, arguing that “the information published in Libé confirm the need to think about the best way to treat this particular case”. She renewed on this occasion confidence in the cell.