following the publication by Mediapart and France Inter, testimonies of eight women reporting having been victims of acts of aggression and sexual harassment by the historic leader of the Greens Denis Baupin, many politicians called for the resignation of the vice-presidency of the national Assembly, Monday, May 9
Claude Bartolone, President of the room, had indicated in a statement having made the request Monday morning. Soon after, Denis Baupin said it had submitted his resignation. His lawyers, however, assured that he was challenging the charges against him and planned to file a complaint. The Member for Paris recently left the party Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), April 18.
In a statement released by mid afternoon EELV “salutes the courage of activists who broke the silence by bringing their testimonies accusing Denis Baupin sexual assault and harassment “. EELV adds that “immediately” , the party “intends to implement new internal measures to improve the freedom of speech by accompanying victims of misconduct” . “Europe Ecologie-Greens can only hope that the courage alert pitching is contagious and that the word is released against all abusers and stalkers whether political or generally. Fear and shame must change camp “, concludes the text. In the morning David Cormand, Acting National Secretary of EELV and co-signer of the statement, had told the World that Denis Baupin should resign .
“ We tried to group witnesses ”
Several members of EELV agreed Monday not to be surprised or at least did not protest the innocence of the member. “It was very, very well known in the party” , said on Monday the Agence France-Presse collaborator of members of the environmental group in the Assembly. “Yes, I know, not quite, not quite” , also explained Jean-Sébastien Herpin, Joint Secretary EELV Regional Centre, on his blog. “Around a glass of wine in friendly parties, in turn, comrades, for some girlfriends, talking, and I confided blêmissais, and I knew it would fall one day (…)” , he wrote. He said he decided to support the women who testified, “because [it s] forestay [t] too you” .
Maryse Oudjaoudi, national framework of EELV, as it comes out of silence. She participated in the establishment a year ago of an Internet system for collecting “possible harassment of witnesses in the party” says regional newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré , that interrogated. She says: “Yes we were aware for almost a year, when young women began to confide. But we had to do things quietly, with the help of lawyers, advice, to protect our friends who were willing to talk, even if the facts could be prescribed (…). We tried to group the witnesses so that they give each other courage, because to testify, it takes! You know, speaking of women is often questioned. Look at the disgusting tweets that have been able to receive those who spoke openly on Monday morning. It’s horrible ! “ She said that other evidence is happening, ” Now that the word is dropped “, perhaps even from ” other witnesses most important in the movement “.
” environmentalists are not spared by this type of behavior “, deplored Christmas Mamère, environmentalist mayor of Bègles and former EELV, which emphasizes her discomfort and shame, but told “proud that women are determined to speak” . “It’ll probably help other women who today are harassed and abused” , he says.
“I was aware that Denis had a behavior say a little clumsy with women, I had no idea he was going too far “, said on RMC Councillor Yves Contassot Paris EELV. This calls into question the responsibility of Emmanuelle Cosse, former National Secretary of EELV and wife of Denis Baupin: after allusions to rumors of sexual abuse in the party “fairly recently in a federal council, the surprise of the person who rose to the podium to ask that we stop discussing that, it’s his girlfriend, Emma is Cosse (…). She went up to the podium to say, “Enough, I refuse that continue to discuss this issue” “, he told
. “We must let nothing”
Valérie Pécresse, President Republicans in the Ile-de-France region, called the deputy of Paris in “all the consequences” . “Politicians, vis-à-vis these sexual harassment practices, should be exemplary, and obviously this is not the case,” , she found on France Info, “extremely shocked” by the evidence.
François de Rugy, MP of Loire-Atlantique and Chairman of the Greens party!, said he “both stunned and bruised “ by these revelations that affect a ” political friend “. France Inter on Monday morning, he said he did “never got to know the facts of this kind, if not [it] will [t] condemned “. A few hours later, he said in a statement that “does [had] was informed that one situation that the concerned” about “a collaborator of the environmental group in the national Assembly” “itself states that it was not harassment” , but had asked him to intervene because the situation put the “uncomfortable” .
Bruno Le Roux, President of the Socialist group in the Assembly, called on Europe 1 Denis Baupin to explain for developments considered “serious”. For Luke Carvounas, Socialist senator from Val-de-Marne, which is expressed on LCP, “ do let anything, whether moral harassment, sexual harassment “, even if, at present, ” there is a presumption of innocence that exists for Denis Baupin. But this necessarily requires – he is Vice President of the National Assembly -. Explanations ‘
Clémentine Autain, Regional Councillor Left Front Ile-de-France , claimed on France Info that “everybody knew” and that one of the women who testify, Isabelle Attard, it “had entrusted these acts” . She considers them a “high gravity” , and attributes the fact that women have not spoken before the “political climate shaped by the male world.” “The political world is a hunting ground in which women try to survive” , where they often feel “isolated, or did not want to be seen as victims’ she assured.
Petition to “lift the omerta”
In a statement, the association dare feminism! asks “to end the impunity of the powerful”
“Thinking that the case is isolated Denis Baupin is a mistake for several years, politicians were involved in cases of macho violence: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (who ended the American judicial proceeding by a financial transaction), Georges Tron (referred to the foundation for aggravated rape), more recently Jean-Michel Baylet ( Buzzfeed article in the March 10), Michel Sapin, and now Denis Baupin. In five cases publicly out, how many others are suppressed, concealed, condemning the victims to silence? “
A petition created by the group Let’s raise the omerta and relayed by the feminist activist Caroline De Haas, was launched on Change.org platform. It is addressed to leaders of political parties and the presidents of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Economic, social and environmental, including asking them to include in their statutes that any party leader or elected perpetrator of sexual violence is excluded, and to include in the rules, declaration of principles or statutes of their party or institution the fight against sexual violence a priority.
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