For the Times, this is the latest example of a “crisis of the left-wing opposition coalition triggered by accusations of gender-based violence weighing on some of its emblematic figures”. This Monday, September 26, Julien Bayou announced his withdrawal from the post of national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV). The forty-year-old felt the pressure mount after Sandrine Rousseau revealed, on September 19, that she had received within the party’s sexist and sexual violence investigation cell one of Mr. Bayou’s ex-companions, who accuses him of “behaviours likely to break the moral health of women”.
Bayou denies the charges. But he ended up submitting his resignation. “The attacks of the academic have important consequences”, report it Times. Reason for the conservative daily to take a closer look at the green MP for Paris. “Rousseau leads the charge as the spearhead of a combative feminism that France likes to describe as excessive”, writes the newspaper. The barbecue episode in particular, followed by a lively debate in France at the end of the summer, and also an Ifop study showing a correlation between heavy meat eaters and sexist opinions attracted the attention of the international press. .
In the race to take the reins of the party, Rousseau “camps on positions that are holy bread for her enemies, who treat her as an heiress of Robespierre”, Write the Times. A posture that disturbs including within his camp. “Few are those who openly attack her, but some members of the left describe her in private as a fan of publicity stunts à la Zemmour”, writes the daily about the Nupes parties.
The conservative title also dwells for a few moments on the declarations of Sandrine Rousseau, who, during the summer, qualified Elon Musk as“archetypal white males responsible for human suffering and climate catastrophe”. An accusation that comes from the mouth of the “slayer of French males”, headlines the newspaper.