The former national secretary of Europe Ecologie-les Verts, who resigned following accusations of moral harassment carried by his ex-partner, delivered his version of the facts. He took for lawyer Marie Dosé, personality appreciated on the left.
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The crisis experienced by environmentalists has taken the form of a public unpacking on Monday, September 26. Bertious until then, Julien Bayou, whose ex-partner had made a report to the cell on the sexual and sexist violence of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), went to the offensive. Rather than facing the press, he chose to mandate a much appreciated penalty on the left. Lawyer Marie Dosé, known in particular for her defense of families of French jihadists seeking to repatriate the children, delivered the version of her client on Monday afternoon, who had resigned a few hours earlier from his functions as first secretary and of vice-president of the ecologist group in the National Assembly.
Following a separation from November 2021 and several “episodes of tension, pressure, blackmail, and more peaceful moments”, detailed the lawyer, the alleged victim would have transmitted on June 30, 2022 to the Friends of Julien Bayou, Sandrine Rousseau and Eelv cell an “email qualifying her former manipulator companion, and evoking her intention to” die “”, before “absorb drugs”. The ex-partner would then have sent a threatening message to “come back, and in force,” she continued, suggesting that the latter was looking to take revenge.
His attacks then focused on Sandrine Rousseau, who “chose to make [the case] public in” C à vous “”. On September 17, the eco-feminist deputy had unveiled on France 5 the suicide attempt committed by the former partner of Julien Bayou. “There are behaviors likely to break the moral health of women,” she said. “What is it talking about?” Replied Monday Marie Dosé, recalling that Sandrine Rousseau had herself recognized that there was no illegal fact. For the lawyer, the deputy instrumentalized the “right fight against sexual and sexist violence for political ends”, as the Congress of the Greens, who must be held at the end of the year.
A political maneuver?
The party enters the turbulence area. He is thus loaned to Sandrine Rousseau, main representative of political ecology on television sets, the ambition to increase his weight within the movement. Unable to claim the post of first secretary, because of her deputy status, she supports the elected representative of Lille, Mélissa Camara, who wishes to direct the movement towards something “more radical, more intersectional”, like her indicated this to Liberation last week.
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