An appeasement speech this Saturday after the political upheaval surrounding the Julien Bayou affair. At this Saturday’s congress in front of the party’s federal council, the national undersecretary for Ecology Europe Los Verdes, Jérémie Crépel “reaffirms his confidence in the action” of the internal cell.
In a speech before the federal council of the EELV, who exercises with Léa Balage El Mariky the interim leadership of the party, explains that the resignation of Julien Bayou -accused of psychological violence against a former colleague- “is a shock that we had to face collectively”.
“All persons who had a link to Julien Bayou have been removed from the file,” the party said in a press release. The cell “did not consider that there was a need to suspend Julien Bayou conservatively and continues with his work and these hearings,” the text adds.
“Need to outsource surveys”
“The way in which left-wing parties deal with sexist and sexual violence is once again being questioned,” Jérémie Crépel acknowledges.
In front of the activists, she thus returns to the controversy surrounding the internal cell in charge of collecting testimonies of sexist and sexual violence within the environmentalist party. He reaffirms “his trust” in her, and wants to “do everything possible so that our movement and our society are an inclusive space that rejects all discrimination, whatever it may be.”
However, it puts on the table the “possible need to outsource all or part of the investigations.”
In response to criticism of the operation of this cell, in particular the slowness in processing reports, he assures that it is not “private justice” as I have heard, but a disciplinary body of our movement in charge of proposing sanctions internal. he said.
“Speak only with extreme caution”
A victim pointed out this Saturday on franceinfo the deficiencies of the organization, which calmly warned its alleged attacker.
Jérémie Crépel also calls Sandrine Rousseau to order without naming her. “Je voudrais rappeler également que plus on s’expresses publiquement sur les enquêtes, plus on rend la mission de la cellule difficile, et j’appelle donc chacune et chacun à ne s’exprimer qu’avec une extreme prudence”, declare-t -The.
The former Elysée Palace hopeful had raised suspicions of violence against Bayou on France 5 two weeks ago. He just after he had defended himself for having put this case “in the public square”.
Jérémie Crépel concluded his speech by recalling that the party “had been the first, after the Baupin case, to set up a unit to combat sexist and sexual violence”.
Source: BFM TV
