It was by a convoluted press release, published on 1 er February, that Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV) puts an end to the Bayou affair. After a thousand precautions for language and reminders of the party’s commitment in the “fight against violence against women”, the Executive Office admits, at the end of the pen, that for lack of testimonies “the cell decided to close the file” . Thus ends, in total discretion but in the form of a fiasco, the investigation carried out by this structure on possible psychological violence committed by Julien Bayou, deputy of Paris and former national secretary of the party, towards his ex-partner.
Six years after #MeToo, is this episode the manifestation of a drift that would have transformed the fight of women into a blind crusade against a man, whose fickle life was spread out in the public square? The proof of the inanity of these famous cells, erected in progress by the left parties, but which could only be bad exceptional courts? “This reveals that on these subjects, new for all of us, we invent the tools as you need”, analyzes the senator (PS) Laurence Rossignol.
Main lesson for environmentalists: this cell, created in 2016, in the wake of the Denis Baupin affair, former deputy accused of sexual harassment by several activists (including Sandrine Rousseau who caused the media whirl Confidences of the former partner of Julien Bayou), was, in the test of reality, proven dysfunctional.
“satisfactory for anyone”
The independence of this unit vis-à-vis management, presented as a guarantee of protection of potential victims, deprived party executives of all control. The impartiality of certain volunteer activists composing it was questioned. It is also because she did not trust this cell that the former partner of Julien Bayou finally refused to testify. For her part, Marie Dosé, the lawyer of the former leader of the Greens, asked for the challenge of one of his members.
Finally, the protocol imagined to best welcome the words of women, based on an absolute secret, seems to have forgotten the rights of the defense. For seven months, the press and Julien Bayou were convinced that an investigation was open. How could it have been otherwise when, to the arguments of the defense, it was answered by the cell that a “investigation takes time”. It is only the 1 er February that the lawyer of Julien Bayou understood that the file had never been opened, the pre -fetch of the potential victim, the starting point of the investigation, Having never taken place. The structure of the Greens has proven to be less protective than a classic legal proceedings, in which the lawyer is informed when a complaint is filed, an open preliminary survey.
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