Baupin case: Batho sum Tree to explain the charges against him – BFMTV.COM

isolated cases or widespread phenomenon in the political sphere? Asked Tuesday by reporters on the accusations of harassment and sexual assault against the Green MP Denis Baupin , the member Delphine Batho PS felt that this was where “the tip of . the iceberg “

former Ecology Minister took the opportunity to ask the finance minister Michel Sapin to explain the charges against him:

“Now you have to spring cleaning. There is a minister who has to explain, apologize for the less”, has she said about his former colleague in government, blamed for an inappropriate gesture to a journalist . “No party can escape complicity in the form of omerta,” continued the elected Deux-Sèvres, in which “more broadly, the question that is asked is the feminization of the political class.”

He himself asked about the case Baupin, Michel Sapin said at a news briefing on Tuesday that what was described by women was “terrible”, but felt it was “justice to establish the facts, not to the press or the people. “

Regarding the charges in April against him,” we are in a total area of ​​calumny, “said he said, calling not to “make the confusion between the names that have nothing to do.”

“It’s allegations are totally false, which are also declared as such by people who could be directly or indirectly involved,” added Michel Sapin.

The Minister, however, decided not to defamation, to apply “the principle” as that followed by François Hollande since his arrival at the Elysee.

In their book, The Elysee Off , journalists and Stéphanie Marteau Aziz Zemouri Michel Sapin accused of having “snapped the waistband of the pants” of a journalist who had bent to pick up a pen during the Davos Forum in January 2015.

This episode was narrated, but in a different way, in a forum signed by forty women journalists , published in May 2015 Libération . The authors suggested a “minister who, seeing us bent to pick up a pen, can not hold his hand, murmuring, ‘Ah, but what you show me?”.

According to a member of the group Hands, Michel Sapin would actually “touched the lower back” of the journalist in question. “It is neither breeches nor that smacked of a hand to the buttocks,” said the member of the collective, asked by MetroNews .

Affected by accusations of sexual assault, Denis Baupin for his part, said Tuesday it filed a defamation complaint against Mediapart and France Inter, following their revelations based on testimony of alleged victims. Several feminist organizations called for a rally Wednesday at 18:30 in front of the National Assembly to demand his resignation.