The former companion of Julien Bayou officially seized, Monday, October 3, the investigation unit of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) against violence against women and wishes to be heard “under certain conditions ensuring the security of the testimonies”she said in a statement released by her lawyer.
saying to themselves “constrained and forced by the media tempo that has been imposed on him lately in defiance of his mental health”, the former companion of Julien Bayou speaks for the first time on the merits of the case. She says she seized EELV’s cell “to recover his word, word completely confiscated lately – mainly by men and their accomplices – in defiance of his existence”adds the press release of Me Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon.
Julien Bayou resigned last Monday from his post as national secretary of EELV after accusations of psychological violence against his former companion, which he disputes. No complaint has been lodged nor any judicial inquiry opened.
“A misogynistic internal and external campaign”
After an article by Release revealing on Friday that, for three years, Julien Bayou had been living under pressure from an informal feminist collective which reproached him for his conduct and was investigating his relations with women, the management of EELV reaffirmed its confidence in the internal cell of the left. The cell “did not consider that there was reason to suspend on a conservatory basis Julien Bayou and she continues her work and her auditions”said Saturday, EELV.
The former companion of Julien Bayou “Wishes to clarify that her suicidal ideas and her acting out are in no way linked to the action of feminist activists but to behaviors that would be toxic, contrary to the values of feminism, supposed to be at the heart of the values of EELV, likely to endanger moral or physical health, and to the guilt she felt for having been able to serve as “surety” despite herself”adds the press release from his lawyer.
“My client did not join EELV thinking she was joining a ‘dating club’. She joined this party because it had made political choices which she considered (then) innovative and courageous on certain subjects and because she had expertise to contribute.adds the lawyer.
“She deplores a misogynistic, psychophobic and validist internal and external campaign, unworthy of people who call themselves progressive. »