Julien Bayou responds in an interview and denies the accusations of psychological violence
Julien Bayou at the Festival of Humanity, September 10, 2022. AFP - THOMAS SAMSON
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Accused of having exercised psychological violence against his ex-companion, Julien Bayou decided to retaliate in an interview published this Tuesday, October 4 in the daily
Le Monde
.
The leader of Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV), who resigned from his post at the head of the party, disputes the facts and attacks Sandrine Rousseau, the ecologist deputy who made the affair public.
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So far he had kept silent.
Today, after his resignation from the direction of Europe Ecology-The Greens,
Julien Bayou
has decided to give his version of the story and respond to Sandrine Rousseau.
According to him, the Green MP "
went too far
".
In a long interview published in
Le Monde
on Tuesday, he believes that “
we must not confuse feminism and McCarthyism
”.
“
Feminism, yes of course, always.
McCarhyism is a whole other 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,
On September 19, the deputy had declared on France 5 that a suicide attempt had been committed by the former companion of the national secretary of the ecologist party, implying psychological violence on the part of the latter.
"
Anathemas
"
Julien Bayou refutes the accusations of "
toxic behavior
" brought against him and compares them to "
anathemas
".
He denies having exercised "
psychological violence
" by explaining that there is no fact showing his "
intention
" to harm his ex-companion.
He adds: "
We do not balance at prime time the psychological situation of someone who is suffering or accusations without element
".
A way of denouncing the attitude of Sandrine Rousseau again.
He recalls having asked four times to be heard by the internal cell at EELV which had self-seized after an
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
".
“
I return to the National Assembly this Tuesday
”
Asked about
the revelations of
Liberation
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 militant woman to stop investigating me and above all to peddle rumors and accusations without proof
”, he specifies. Julien Bayou evokes “
an instrumentalization with a view to settling
scores ”.
This response does not happen at any time, analyzes
Valérie Gas
, head of the Political Department of RFI.
But the day when the deputies resume parliamentary work.
Julien Bayou has withdrawn from the co-presidency of the environmental group in the Assembly but announces that he will be present in the hemicycle and intends to carry out his mandate.
A way of indicating that he intends to fight.
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