In any case, this affair will leave deep traces, as this story reveals a deleterious internal atmosphere. Julien Bayou is therefore accused by some Greens of having exercised “psychological violence” against his ex-companion, without any complaint or even any specific fact having been revealed at this stage.
And Release published this weekend an edifying investigation which reveals an atmosphere of suspicion, threats, and even espionage. We learn that Julien Bayou had been watched for three years by ecofeminist activists who were part of Sandrine Rousseau’s campaign team during the presidential primary last year. They were trying to extract from the ex-companions of Julien Bayou revelations about his behavior with women. In vain, but this climate prompted him to resign from his position as national secretary of the movement.
For her part, precisely, the deputy Sandrine Rousseau, who had revealed the nature of the accusations, said not “regret nothing“. She had swung on television that Julien Bayou would have behaved in such a way as to “break down morally” a woman, to the point of inciting her to attempt suicide. Despite the absence of a complaint and even of any criminal act, Sandrine Rousseau judges that this great unpacking was necessary to “defend women“. According to him, we have to go through it as women have been silent victims for so long. In short, in his eyes, morality, in this case his morality, is worth more than justice.
Sandrine Rousseau is today the dominant figure of the Greens. Recall that she narrowly missed the presidential nomination a year ago. Today, it is she who sets the tone, and above all, she is the one who cleaves. Within the party, we are resolutely for or totally against.
Sandrine Rousseau sees herself as the bearer of women’s anger and willingly pours into provocation, for example, on the barbecue, a symbol of virilism to be eradicated. She also assumes that she wants to interfere even in the intimacy of couples and families to track down male behavior that she considers intolerable. Basically, the echo it gathers illustrates quite well the turn that public debate is taking today, that is to say the reign of buzz and invective, of incendiary tweets and indignation. .. In short, emotion, even excommunication, sometimes to the detriment of nuance and reason.