The ex-companion of Julien Bayou, who accuses the former national secretary of EELV of psychological violence, announces having seized this Monday the cell specialized in sexual and sexist violence of EELV, according to a press release sent to 20 minutes.
“She officially seized the EELV cell today, and asked to be heard under certain conditions ensuring the security of the testimonies, constrained and forced by the media tempo that was recently imposed on her in defiance of her mental health”, indicates this press release, written by his lawyer Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon.
“Misogynist, psychophobic and validist”
“She did not seize the EELV cell at the time. This was self-seized following a desperate email, “says this press release, which deplores “a misogynistic, psychophobic and validist internal and external campaign, unworthy of people who call themselves progressives”.
The management of EELV reaffirmed on Saturday its confidence in the internal cell of the party responsible for violence against women, after the accusations of psychological violence against its former national secretary Julien Bayou, and following an article by Release titled “how activists and exes put the head of EE-LV under surveillance”.
“Problem on the bottom”
The article of Release explained that the ex-secretary of EELV had lived for three years under the pressure of an informal feminist collective which reproached him for his conduct and investigated his relations with women, going so far as to question his former companions. But this article was criticized internally by several people within EELV, and in public in particular by Sandrine Rousseau. “I read the article and it is not at all a surveillance, it has nothing to do with a surveillance, and moreover this article seems to me extremely problematic on the merits”, has said the deputy.
In his press release, the ex-companion of Julien Bayou targets the article of Release, claiming to have “not given his agreement for the publication or transmission of extracts from his private conversations without contradiction”. “She was not questioned on several elements that appeared in certain articles which, in fact, are inaccurate (“free relationship” with Julien Bayou for example)”, continues the press release.