The dissensions are accentuated in Europe Ecologie-Les Verts.

The former national secretary of the party, Julien Bayou, believes this Tuesday in an interview with

Le Monde

that his colleague deputy Sandrine Rousseau "has gone too far" and that "we must not confuse feminism and McCarthyism".

“She went too far.

And everyone measures it, ”says the deputy who resigned from the head of EELV and withdrew from the co-presidency of the environmental group in the National Assembly, a few days after accusations of psychological violence against an ex -companion formulated by Sandrine Rousseau on a television set, accusations which he disputes.

Absent Monday at the start of the parliamentary term, Julien Bayou ensures that he will be on the bench of his group on Tuesday.

A "pathetic spectacle"

“Feminism, yes of course, always.

McCarthyism is a whole different subject.

It is to say: “I have lists of men”, it is to make accusations that you cannot contradict because there is no investigation”, develops Julien Bayou, evoking a “diversion” of feminism and "a pathetic sight".

"We do not balance at prime time the psychological situation of someone who is suffering or accusations without elements", he believes.

“The private sector should not be instrumentalized for political ends”, continues the deputy from Paris.

Arbitration of the internal cell of EELV

He recalls having asked four times to be heard by the internal cell at EELV which had self-seized after an email from his former companion.

Since then, the latter, who has not been heard either in this context, officially asked on Monday to be heard "under certain conditions ensuring the security of the testimonies".

But for Julien Bayou, this cell that his party was the first to set up following the Baupin affair, was “necessary but it is fundamentally insufficient”: this type of structure “does not replace justice”.

“The most serious sanction that it can pronounce is the exclusion of EELV.

It cannot claim or state the law or pronounce reparation.

We are hitting a dead end”.

"A settling of accounts"

He also questions its effectiveness in the case of the party leader: “Would I be cleared, it looks like there was collusion.

Would I be sanctioned, it would be interpreted as a settling of scores before the party's congress in December.

Asked about the

Liberation revelations

that he was the subject of "surveillance" by a group of feminist activists, he claims to have "hesitated to file a handrail" in 2019. "I had to ask a female activist to stop to investigate me and above all to peddle rumors and accusations without proof”, he specifies.

"I see it as instrumentalization for the settlement of accounts," he sums up.

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  • Julien Bayou

  • Sandrine Rousseau

  • Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV)

  • Violence against women