Julien Bayou: lawyer for his ex-partner denounces an instrumentalization “for political purposes”

Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon believes that the environmental deputy, who resigned from EELV management, “spread in the media to form media pressure”, after an interview with “world” and television intervention in “C to you “On France 5 Tuesday.

Le Monde

After the accusations of psychological violence against her former partner launched by the Ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau on France 5, on September 19, two weeks of silence then her resignation from the Directorate of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), Julien Bayou went to the media offensive on Tuesday by granting an interview to the world and then going to the set of the program “C à vous” on France 5.

Speaking that made the lawyer react of her ex-partner, Wednesday October 5 on franceinfo . The environmental deputy “instrumentalizes this case for political purposes” denounced window Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon, who had so far spoke publicly, and who sees it as “the continuation of her storytelling, her media campaign” .

“I am in a situation, it is Kafka: I am innocent of facts that are not presented to me, and which I cannot defend myself,” said Bayou on Tuesday, accusing Sandrine Rousseau of being “Allee too far” and to confuse “feminism and maccarthyism”. For M e tuaillon-Hibon, the environmental deputy tries to “put pressure on the internal cell” of the internal and sexual violence of EELV. She denounces from Mr. Bayou a “instrumentalization to victimize himself and try to make the skin one of her opponents”, evoking, without naming her Sandrine Rousseau.

she “does not go well”

Julien Bayou spoke on television on Tuesday evening, on the very show where Sandrine Rousseau had launched her accusations. “I come here backwards”, he admitted, wishing to “complete the loop. This sequence [with Sandrine Rousseau] is serious. It is irresponsible to (…) launch accusations without storming,” he denounced.

The lawyer does not close the door to the filing of a complaint by her client, “it is a choice that belongs to her,” she says, while adding that she does not know if “she will still have the shoulders, the strength and the will to go to court and undergo a campaign which will, no doubt, more important “, because it” is not going well “.

M e tuaillon-Hibon also assures that it is not abnormal that the cell violence and sexist cells of EELV has not yet heard its client or the former secretary National of EELV. In any internal cell “the contradictory is only minimal”, she specifies. She explains that “there are anonymizations to preserve the word inside, to avoid pressures”.

/Media reports.