“We swung Julien to the dogs”: amazement and embarrassment among the Greens on the Bayou affair

Unease among the Greens. Since the beginning of the week, environmentalists have been wondering about the internal handling of the “Bayou affair”. At issue: the resignation Monday, September 26 of the former party boss, to everyone’s surprise, from his post as national secretary, after an ex-companion accused him of psychological violence. Targeted by a report to the unit for the fight against sexist and sexual violence of the party – without any complaint having been filed at this time – he then defended himself through his lawyer, explicitly targeting the role of MP Sandrine Rousseau, who reported the accusations on a television set. Bayou denounced an “untenable situation” and a lack of respect for the contradictory, in particular in the investigation carried out by the cell of the movement.