VIDEO – Many women complain to Mediapart and France Inter acts of harassment and sexual assault by the Vice President of the National Assembly <. / p>
Denis Baupin, vice president of the national Assembly, is accused of sexual harassment and assault. For the first time, several women interviewed by Mediapart France Inter and tell SMS, equivocal remarks or gestures displaced deputy of Paris, who recently left Europe Ecology-Greens. Out of all the evidence collected, four elected officials have “decided to break the omerta” openly.
In the aftermath, the president of the National Assembly Claude Bartolone received the deputy of Paris and asked him to resign his post of vice president. At midday, the elected environmentalist has resigned “to his defense.” “Denis Baupin fundamentally challenges the notion of sexual harassment and even sexual assault, which are completely foreign to him,” assured his lawyer that the MP “considering” a complaint for defamation.
Among the elected who testified, the spokesman for the EELV party, Sandrine Rousseau. She tells that day in October 2011 in Montreuil. The party leaders met to prepare the program for the presidential and legislative elections of 2012. It is also an economist at the University of Lille-I decided to take a break and left the meeting. “In the corridor that runs along the hall, Denis Baupin came. He pressed against the wall, holding my chest, and tried to kiss me. I pushed him away violently, “says one just integrate the party leadership. “At the time, I was so shocked that I did not say much.”
“It was the almost daily harassment provocative SMS, salacious “
the trigger point for these accounts, Mediapart and by France Inter: a photo published on March 8 on the occasion of the international day of women’s rights. On his Twitter account, Denis Baupin posted a picture of him and several elected with lipstick against violence against women. A cliché that has bothered Sandrine Rousseau: “I have seen not someone who defended the rights of women but someone who had tried to kiss a woman of strength.”
Several deputies posed with lipstick on March 8 to denounce violence against women. Appearing alongside Benedict, Olivier Falorni, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, appears Denis Baupin.
As soon as it became Calvados MP in June 2012, Isabelle Attard, elected under the label EELV, said he received dozens of SMS “salacious” and “provocateurs” from Denis Baupin. This “almost daily harassment” lasted until December 2013, when she left the party because of political disagreements. “There were times when we were over, it was burst … and it was kind when we were in the Assembly, between Tuesday and Thursday,” says Isabelle Attard on the website Mediapart. “It was for example: ” I like it when you cross your legs like that. “ It was even bluntly, in meetings or working lunches, the fact to offer me to be my lover. At first, it is said about the tone of the joke. And it quickly becomes very boring, painful … “. According to her, several other MPs were recipients of this kind of SMS.
Sandrine Rousseau, current spokesperson of EELV, February 12, 2016 Copyright: THOMAS SAMSON / AFP
lest meet face to face with the Green MP, it avoids the appointment alone with him. The only time it will request a meeting, it will ask its parliamentary attaché Frédéric Toutain to accompany him. That the person confirmed. He was able to read the SMS. “I was a staff representative and I had to take care of cases of sexual harassment. For me, it is characterized, “says Frédéric Toutain. Sexual harassment, as defined in Article 222-33 of the Penal Code, is punishable by two years in prison and 30,000 euros fine and in some cases three years imprisonment and a 45,000 euro fine.
“I want to see your ass”
in 2011, the young militant Elen Debost also awash in texting. One that is now Assistant to the EELV youth for mayor of Le Mans said he received “several SMS months of sexual incitement.” The woman may say that she is “not interested”, that “anyone in his life,” nothing works. “In total, I received hundreds of messages. Like “I’m on a train and I would sodomize you in thigh”. “I love the domination of situations. You have to be a great dominatrix “” I want to see your ass. ‘ “
Isabelle Attard, Calvados MP, who left EELV December 2013 Copyright: ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP
Among the testimonies Mediapart and France Inter, he is also collaborating who preferred to remain anonymous. Again, they evoke “SMS clumsy” or “a little too friendly messages.” Embarrassed, one of them ended up talking about the co-chairs of the party. “Since then, it’s settled. There were no more ambiguity, “says Barbara Pompili, now Secretary of State Biodiversity government. “As there is a hierarchical relationship between employees and deputies, he was not about to choke. Subsequently, there have never had any problems with this or collaborating with others, “said his side François de Rugy, Co EELV group in the Assembly.
No complaint
Internally, the president of the Committee of EELV feminism, Dominique Trichet-Allaire, had also received testimonies regarding particular Denis Baupin. “We had informed me of sexual harassment, sexual touching, on people with whom he had authority,” she explained to Mediapart. Cécile Duflot, the former National Secretary of the party, was also aware. “But often indirectly” and “long after”. Why did not you react? It is “difficult to act without knowing precisely. Nothing was proven “, she defends to the news site. “Languages do not loosen easily on these topics. There was a gray area on this behavior. “
In all, the two media statement eight cases can be qualified sexual assault and harassment . But none of the alleged victims have complained. “For many of them, the facts date back more than three years and are therefore prescribed” writes Mediapart (see box). They evoke the “shame”, “guilt”, the feeling of “solitude” but also the risk of losing his job, the desire to preserve the party and its image. And that of Emmanuelle Cosse. The current Minister of Housing and former national secretary of EELV (December 2013-February 2016) is the wife of Denis Baupin. Several of them were also convinced that you could not be both a politician and victim. “In politics, one is supposed to embody something that is not very feminine, which is strength,” says Elen Bost, Assistant to the EELV youth for mayor of Le Mans. “Go stand as a victim, it’s complicated. One has the impression that this will destroy everything we have tried to build. ”
“The respondents hope that this will free speech of the alleged victims and to show those who are silent, it is possible to speak and especially to be heard,” wrote France inter. Denis Baupin refused to answer our colleagues Mediapart. Like his lawyers threatened publication of prosecution. Contacted by Le Figaro , Denis Baupin did not respond to our calls.
Are Possible prosecution?
For most women who testified, the facts are prescribed today. Indeed, harassment and sexual assaults (excluding rape) are offenses which the limitation period is, with exceptions, of three years. Can a survey still be open? “If the prescription is proven, it is acquired for everyone” answers Anaïs Vrain, national secretary of the Union of Magistrates. “In fact, the prosecutor can not initiate investigation.” However, “it is not unusual that such testimony free speech and urge others to talk and complain.” In this case, the prosecutor may prosecute the alleged victims and the facts were prescribed may possibly be parties.
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