“Sandrine Rousseau should not have become the spokesperson for a case of which she does not know much“, reacts Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, on franceinfo this Tuesday, while Julien Bayou, EELV deputy for Paris, speaks for the first time since he left the party leadership and the presidency of the environmental group at l ‘Assembly in an interview in The world.
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The EELV deputy must be above all “understood“because this”case has not yet been studied by the unit“and while he is”ready to answer for his actions“, estimates Olivier Faure on franceinfo.
Bayou affair: “Sandrine Rousseau should not have become the spokesperson for a case of which she does not know much”, reacts Olivier Faure. “When the procedure is initiated, it must be respected.” pic.twitter.com/QsFe0YFQHo
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The former national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens, Julien Bayou, believes in an interview with World Tuesday that his colleague deputy Sandrine Rousseau “has gone too far”, believing that “we must not confuse feminism and McCarthyism“.”She went too far. And everyone measures it“, thus declared 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. made by Ms. Rousseau on a television set, accusations which he disputes.
The EELV harassment and sexual and gender-based violence investigation and sanction unit “is already entered” of the Julien Bayou case, underlines Olivier Faure. “It’s not as if there had been a lid or a screed of lead that had been put on EELV and that nothing was possible, he judges, in which case the alert should have been issued. When the procedure is initiated, it must be respected”.
“We must first have a principle which is to believe the word of women a priori”, believes the national secretary of the PS. However, he qualifies, “that does not mean that it supposes an irrefutable belief, which cannot be contradicted”. “The adversarial principle must be respected”, he insists.
Regarding the accusations of psychological violence to which he is subject, points out Olivier Faure, “Julien Bayou says that he has never been heard by this unit against sexual and gender-based violence, which he has asked to be heard four times, the logic is obviously that he be heard”. Deputy EELV is, he says, “ready to answer for his actions”.
“We can’t trust just one word either”
Olivier Faureat franceinfo
In his interview at WorldJulien Bayou declares that “Don’t confuse feminism with McCarthyism.. “There must be no McCarthyism in any matter”, supports the boss of the PS. According to him, “you have to find both a form of reason and at the same time not take advantage of these mistakes that can be made to say that nothing should happen, and that you have to put the lid back on again” on violence against women.