At the end of September, Sandrine Rousseau spoke on France 5 about the possible psychological violence committed by Julien Bayou on his former partner. Since then, the environmentalist deputy for Paris resigned from his duties as general secretary of the EELV, while he fiercely denied the facts that were attributed to him.
This Tuesday, after an interview with the newspaper The worldJulien Bayou decided to continue his media counteroffensive by going to the set of Up to you. Taking up most of the elements already exposed in the evening paper, he denounced “McCarthyism” in which several members of a cell tried to investigate his attitude towards women, whose existence was revealed by Release. He also considered that Sandrine Rousseau, by revealing her ex-partner’s attempted suicide in prime time, had gone “too far”.
But Julien Bayou, visibly concerned that his case not be reused to attack the feminist movement, wanted to reaffirm his attachment to the achievement of gender equality.
“That would imply that there is excess in feminism, that there is excess. I don’t think so. There is no excess in feminism. There is no excess in the search for equality,” she said.
“It’s Quite Different”
To support her words, she dedicated herself to evoking the actions carried out by the Women’s Liberation Movement (MLF) during the second half of the 20th century in France: “There was a time when we accused the feminists of the 60s and 70s of going too far. It’s not true. What they were doing at the time was strictly necessary. I’m thinking of the clandestine abortions of the FML, for example.”
As for those who believe that the informal group created to investigate their relationship with women is in line with the feminist movement in the name of a necessary “sorority”, Julien Bayou indicated that it was actually a “diversion” of the movement.
“It’s quite different from feminism that seeks equality,” she said. “It’s very different to put someone under surveillance, to issue anathemas, to point fingers.”
Source: BFM TV