Julien Bayou counterattacks and denounces a feminist “crusade”

“I have never committed psychological violence against my ex partner and I intend to prove it. ”

In an interview with World published this morning, Julien Bayou comes forward. In mid-September, the online mobilization Rlève Féministe denounced the lack of measures by Europe Écologie Les Verts after the seizure of the reporting unit dedicated to sexist and sexual violence on allegations of violence against the national secretary of the party.

The Bayou affair quickly gained momentum just days later when Sandrine Rousseau was asked on the show. Your turn. He then claimed to have heard the word of a former partner who was allegedly a victim of psychological violence.

“Gossip”, “crusade”, “McCarthyism”, “showdown” : the elements of language in the interview World leave no doubt about Julien Bayou’s line of defense: the deputy considers himself the victim of a cabal and immediately compares the situation – as his lawyer had done a week earlier – to the Court case from Kafka: “There are no charges, I cannot defend myself against them, yet I am presumed guilty. “

As the handling of the case by the media, Julien Bayou directly points to the responsibility of Sandrine Rousseau:

“It went too far. And everyone measures it. […] Many in EELV write to me to tell me that it has gone too far, but they don’t dare to say it in public. It is not an excess of feminism, it is a diversion. The #metoo movement is a necessary and unfinished revolution. “

Julien Bayou could very well, during this interview, praise the struggle for equality between women and men, however some remarks fit in the demonizing discourse of feminists.

A Liberation investigation into these women who allegedly conspired against Bayou

An interview that comes out a few days after the controversial investigation into one of the Publication who tries to shed light on the scams that several women would have been behind monitor the actions of Julien Bayou towards women.

What this survey shows above all is this the women would warn each other in the face of Julien Bayou’s behavior in his intimate relationships. they would have exchanged between themin particular through a WhatsApp group.

Symbol of the current retrograde climate regarding the handling of cases of sexual and gender-based violence, this is presented to us as a “Informal feminist collective” whose only goal would have been to conspire to bring down Julien Bayou.

After being urged to speak out and denounce the violence they suffer, feminists today receive torrents of it “it’s going too far” and of “Serve the cause”and are pictured like the instigators of a witch hunt.

Women need to talk, we’ve been talking for five yearsbut women seem unable to do it right, when needed, in the right environment or even with the right words.

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