The background and the “media silence” announced by his entourage on September 20, will not have lasted long. Six days later, Julien Bayou resigned from his functions as national secretary from Europe Ecologie-les Verts. The ex-ecologist deplored in a statement on Monday, September 26, being “accused of facts which [him] are not presented, which [his] accusers say that they are not criminally reprehensible, and of which [ he] does not [t] [defend himself since we refuse to hear. It is Kafka at the time of social networks. “
Its press release does not dissipate the thick fog around the facts that are accused, after its public questioning, a few days earlier, by Sandrine Rousseau on the set of the program “C à vous”. Bayou lawyer, M e Marie Dosé, assured on Monday during a press conference, that her client “never exercised the slightest psychological violence against his companions “, Denouncing a” vulgar unpacking “and” the instrumentalization of the right fight against sexual and sexist violence for political purposes “, two months from the EELV Congress. With this departure, the former leader of the Greens puts an end, as he underlines in his press release, to “more than nine years of commitment in the direction of the movement”.
For a long time, Julien Bayou campaigned on the sidelines of the parties. On November 12, 2008, in a “campus” supplement of the world entitled “what are the student leaders who have become?”, François Schott paints a portrait of a 28-year-old who “became the spokesperson for trainees under -Payed by creating precarious generation and students victims of the increase in rents by founding black Thursday “.
Son of very committed sixty-eight, Julien Bayou, after studying economics in Strasbourg and then in Sciences Po Paris, then worked for coordination of NGOs. But this “activist of a new genre” entrusts the journalist to feel more useful in his associative activities. “To implement his ideas, writes François Schott, he also plans a political commitment.” It would be an extension of my militant action. I looked for the party or the union where I could invest myself, but I have not yet found shoe at my foot, “he regrets.”
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Julien Bayou is then part of this new generation of “supporters of militant laughter”, summarizes Le Monde Magazine in September 2009. Young people, “facetious committed”, followers of punching actions and active on the Internet – “C” ‘is in a cybercafé that Julien Bayou gives an appointment, “notes Hubert Prolurgeau. These new activists have “the same desire to shake things up, the same ideas (resist capitalism rather than belong to a party), the same awareness of the importance of the media and the same desire to have fun”.
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