#Julien Bayou

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“After Julien Bayou, whose turn is it?”

“After Julien Bayou, whose turn is it?”

FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – After Sandrine Rousseau’s accusations against Julien Bayou on a television set, the deputy had to resign from his duties as national secretary. Beyond the Bayou case, this affair could lead us all into a spiral of media justice, worries mediologist Philippe Guibert. Philippe Guibert is a consultant, former director of the SIG. He published The Tyranny of Visibility (VA Press,…

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Sandrine Rousseau and Julien Bayou : French Greens party boss resigns in fresh blow to left

Sandrine Rousseau and Julien Bayou : French Greens party boss resigns in fresh blow to left

The head of France’s Greens party resigned on Monday after being accused of “psychological violence” by a former partner, dealing a fresh blow to the country’s beleaguered left-wing political coalition. Julien Bayou, head of the Europe Ecology Greens party (EELV), said in a statement that he was stepping down due to the “unsustainable” nature of his position. He has denied the allegations and…

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L'accusatrice. « Je suis accusé de faits qui ne me sont pas présentés, dont mes accusateurs disent qu’ils ne sont pas pénalement répréhensibles, et dont je ne peux pour autant pas me défendre, puisqu’on refuse de m’entendre, affirme Bayou. C’est Kafka à l’heure des réseaux sociaux. ».

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Les politiques face aux violences sexuelles - Stéphane Séjourné - C à vous - 22/09/2022

I translated the WHOLE conversation for you if you want:

Pierre Lescure (journalist and former Festival of Cannes president): Another subject. Apart from the news events of the last few days [Some politicians were accused of domestic abuse], do the statutes of Renaissance, which you now head, provide for procedures to protect or support women within your party?

Stéphane Séjourné: Yes, absolutely. There is a warning and support unit. Unlike some other political parties, it is specified in the statutes that it does not replace the courts. And it's spelled out in black and white in the statutes so that there are no problems here. But yes, I do think it's important to have people who can accompany women to court if there are problems of this type.

Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine (TV Show Host): Adrien Quatennens, Julien Bayou, can they still sit in the Assemblée Nationale?

Stéphane Séjourné: I really do see a difference between Adrien Quatennens [Member of La France Insoumise. Accused of violences by his wife] and Julien Bayou [Leader of the ecologist party Les Verts, accused of psychological abuse by former girlfriends]…

Adrien Quatennens is a bit like the sprinkler being sprinkled. Frankly, I would have understood - well, for France Insoumise - I would obviously have understood if Jean-Luc Mélenchon had explained to us that he couldn't say anything on this subject, due to the close friendship, the political companionship - It happens to all of us, in business, in associations, in the family - I would have understood. The problem of giving moral lessons to all the political parties and being very hard on the opposition and very weak on your own is always something that weakens politicians, I say it collectively, the political class. I make a real difference with Julien Bayou: I listened to Sandrine Rousseau on your show. I'm flabbergasted by what she has done, because if the idea behind it is to get rid of internal opponents or external opponents by taking the law into your own hands…

Emilie Tran Nguyen (journalist): There must be an idea behind it?

Stéphane Séjourné: I'm asking the question. There is a rule of law in France. You can't come on to a TV set… I don't know Julien Bayou, and even if I had met his wife…

This is not a normal procedure. We have the rule of law, we have judges, we have procedures, we have prosecutors, we have lawyers… We have adversarial proceedings. So I'm very worried about the way some politicians are behaving today. It's very dangerous because, with this shift, people are being sidelined from political responsibilities…

We're talking about the leader of the Green Party in France, who is being sidelined today because Sandrine Rousseau mentioned something. We don't know what, we don't know if it's criminally reprehensible. Frankly, I'm worried about the slippery slope we've reached.

I haven’t seen this interview (one can only consume so much). I would like to read the rest, it’s an interesting analysis from Stéphane.

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sandrine rousseau my beloved 💚💚💚 retranscription under the cut + link to archived version here

PARIS — Sandrine Rousseau had just caused an implosion in French politics, again.

In the very last moments of a television program earlier this fall, she was asked about an internal investigation into the leader of her own political party, the Greens, and his romantic relations. She did not dodge the question.

“I think there was behavior that was likely to shatter women’s mental health,” said Ms. Rousseau, 50, a self-described “ecofeminist,” a philosophy that combines ecological concerns with feminist ones.

Her words had a swift impact: Radio and television shows lit up in debate, and Julien Bayou stepped down as the Green Party’s leader a week later, while denying he had emotionally abused a former partner.

“Before, we spoke only about rape, and after we talked about sexual aggression and harassment. Now, I think we need to talk about psychological violence because many women are victims of psychological violence. It’s a form of domination,” Ms. Rousseau said a few weeks later, in her small parliamentary office equipped with a bed, for long nights when debates rage on in the National Assembly, the lower and more powerful house of Parliament, to which she was elected this year.

“It’s the next battleground,” she added.

Few had ever heard of Ms. Rousseau before last year. But she has recently become a brand-name in France for her penchant for jumping into the country’s fierce culture wars on multiple fronts.

She has positioned herself as one of the main torchbearers of the #MeToo movement in France.

And after a summer of frightening heat waves, forest fires and record droughts, she has also suddenly become the country’s loudest champion of fighting climate change.

Her newfound prominence stems in part from her proven ability to spin off one attention-grabbing idea after another, which her ideological fans and opponents alike find irresistible.

Among her statements that have delighted, or infuriated, much of France: “The right to be lazy.” That she lived with a “deconstructed man.” And “we have to change our mentality so that eating a barbecued entrecôte is no longer a symbol of virility,” a line that underscored her view that meat consumption must be reduced to help fight climate change, and that men eat more meat than women.

The intentional provocations are part of a strategy, she says, to wrest the themes of the country’s ongoing cultural battles from the controlling thumbs of the far-right, which has fueled debates on security, immigration and the perceived threat of Islam to French society.

“We’ve been swept along by the right and extreme right who have set the questions of political debate,” said Ms. Rousseau, a trained economist and a former university vice president. “I see my role to change the debate and bring it to ecology and feminism.”

Ms. Rousseau has become a favorite target of the country’s political right, who paint her as the humorless face of self-righteous, American-influenced cancel-culture and “le wokisme.” A parody account poking fun of her has more than 130,000 followers.

The feminist philosopher Élisabeth Badinter on Twitter described her as wanting to “burn everything,” while the leader of the far-right party, Jordan Bardella, said on Facebook that she “embodies a radical madness.”

Her rising fame and decision to denounce Mr. Bayou have made her unpopular in her own party as well, where many consider her unruly, divisive and a distraction.

Ms. Rousseau has been at the center of a political and media storm before.

In 2016, when she was the Greens’ spokeswoman, Ms. Rousseau and three other female politicians publicly accused her powerful party colleague, Denis Baupin, of sexually harassing them. A Paris prosecutor closed the case, because the incidents the women described fell outside the statute of limitations. Otherwise, the prosecutor said, the facts of the case “would likely constitute criminal actions.”

A judge later threw out Mr. Baupin’s defamation lawsuit, instead sentencing him to pay a 500 euro fine ($523) to each of the defendants.

Some French feminists considered it a landmark win, and a new stage of the fight against sexual violence.

“It was a precursor of the #MeToo movement,” said Geneviève Fraisse, a French feminist philosopher. Before, French women had talked about their individual experiences, and now they were exposing a trend, as a group. “That was the trigger than turned everything upside down,” Ms. Fraisse added.

But Ms. Rousseau didn’t feel successful at the time.

More than a year before the #MeToo movement swept the globe, the case left her feeling battered by criticism and abandoned by her party colleagues, some of whom she believed had turned a blind eye to the sexual harassment for years, she said.

“When I looked at my political party, I saw it as a patriarchal organization, where men had the power,” she says. “It was a new kind of violence.”

She left politics and returned to northern France to focus on herjob as vice president of student life and a professor-researcher at Lille University.

She wrote a book about her experience with the Baupin case and launched an organization called En Parler, or “Speaking Out,” to bring together victims of sexual violence.

Ms. Rousseau was not born a rabble-rouser. The daughter of two tax inspectors from a small town in the southwest of the country, she was a bookish child who had to be ripped from homework for dinner and “never caused us any problems,” said her father, Yves Rousseau, who was also the town’s Socialist mayor.

She studied economics in college. For her postgraduate degree, she worked with a community group fighting a plan to cut down a local forest to make way for a hotel. Her contribution, as an economist: calculating the worth of the forest, if it remained a forest.

The hotel project was canceled, she said, adding: “It was my first activist action.”

She married another economist at the university. After having three children, they turned their academic eyes to the source of their marital fighting: the division of cleaning duties.

The paper they wrote together revealed that men spend one-third the time of women on household chores; the research later became the foundation for Ms. Rousseau’s argument that “not sharing household chores” should be made illegal.

The approach became part of a pattern: Her arguments are often received as outlandish, but are based on academic research — along with a feminist sensibility that the personal is political.

“There is little space between what she defends and what she feels. Often they are intimately linked — that’s her way of doing politics,” said Nicolas Postel, a longtime academic colleague.

She was in her kitchen making lunch one day in 2020, still working at the university, when she heard on the radio that President Emmanuel Macron had named Gérald Darmanin the country’s interior minister, one of the most powerful positions in the government.

At the time, Mr. Darmanin was under investigation for rape. In his new job, he would be in charge of the country’s police forces, which feminist activists already considered dismissive of rape and sexual assault reports.

“It was a slap, a spit in the face of the women’s movement,” Ms. Rousseau said.

When Mr. Macron later defended the appointment, saying he had spoken to his new interior minister “man to man,” Ms. Rousseau decided to run against him in the 2022 presidential election as the Green party candidate.

“That said, ‘The world of women doesn’t count. That women are outside of this game here, they can say what they want, but it’s of little importance, really,’” she said of Mr. Macron’s comments.

(A judge dismissed the rape case against Mr. Darmanin last summer; the plaintiff has appealed that decision. Mr. Darmanin has never been charged.)

In the race for the presidential nomination, Ms. Rousseau presented herself as the radical, ecofeminist candidate and, to the surprise of many, lost only narrowly to Yannick Jadot. She later ran as a Green candidate in last June’s parliamentary elections, winning a seat in Paris. Yet there are signs that Ms. Rousseau’s ecofeminism and culture-war tactics are not supported by the bulk of her party’s members.

“She makes a buzz. That’s how Sandrine Rousseau has acquired such a big media audience without any official post in the party,” said Daniel Boy, a retired research director at Sciences Po, who specializes in the politics of the environmental movement. “Will that change things? I doubt it. Changing people’s values is long, chaotic and difficult.”

Still, there’s no doubt that Ms. Rousseau continues to occupy an outsized position in the French imagination.

Last month, her claims that members of the French soccer team were “cowards” who had not taken a symbolic stand for L.G.B.T.Q. rights at the World Cup in Qatar made news across the French press.

She believes she is seeding the national conversation toward concepts anchored in respect — of women, and the environment.

“There are important questions being asked, that at any given moment, will bring changes,” she said. “But it might be too early.”

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Lundi 10 octobre 2022

Sandrine Rousseau m’a tué 

Sandrine Rousseau veut combattre et abattre Julien Bayou dans la perspective du prochain congrès d’EELV. C’est son droit. Ses méthodes totalitaires inspirées de 1793 et surtout des procès de Moscou mêlant vie publique et ingérence dans la vie privée sont pour le moins contestables.

Elle a été huée par des femmes venues manifester leur soutien aux femmes iraniennes avec un cri du cœur : « Dehors la collabo ». C’est certes violent, mais moins que le « Mangez vos morts » de Madame Danièle Obono députée insoumise NUPES.

Comme Yann Moix l’a très justement fait remarquer, le logiciel de madame Rousseau est plus proche de celui des mollahs iraniens que des femmes iraniennes qu’elle prétend vouloir défendre. Allons plus loin : si dans les années sombres du nazisme il avait été avéré qu’Adolf Hitler n’avait eu aucune parole, aucun acte sexiste, n’avait jamais commis d’agression sexuelle entrant dans le champ des féminicides, qu’importe les camps de concentration !

Madame Rousseau considère qu’un homme sur deux est un agresseur. Elle n’a pas encore été nommée directrice de l’INSEE, mais cela ne saurait tarder. Pas besoin de statistiques pour mener la guerre contre les hommes hétéros blancs sur fond d’intersectionnalité unissant les néo-féministes, les gens de couleur et les islamistes.

Madame Elisabeth Badinter a eu le malheur (en fait l’honneur) de relever que les islamistes ne s’en prenaient jamais aux néo-féministes qui, par leurs réactions, ont montré qu’elle avait visé juste.

Dans l’affaire Julien Bayou, Sandrine Rousseau et sa horde sauvage ont voulu privatiser la Justice en mettant en place un mécanisme de surveillance de la vie privée de Julien Bayou qui n’est pas sans rappeler les heures sombres de la Stasi.

Selon Eric Zemmour, la NUPES, si elle ne disparait pas du fait de ses querelles internes, n’aura bientôt plus que des dirigeantes. Faut-il s’en réjouir ? Sans doute pas, même si madame Rousseau aura fortement contribué à renforcer le mouvement conservateur considéré par la bien-pensance comme ultra-conservateur dans la mesure où il se distingue en s’opposant au conservatisme islamiste.

François BAUDILLON

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Pressure Nova and Julien

Teague was good as a seeing eye dog, and he was a great companion. His one fault, if his only, was his obsession (nay, life’s passion) to chase frogs. It wasn’t a common occurrence in the city, more often it was a problem when they went to the bayou to speak with other covens. But today, oh today was one of those rare days after the rain when a frog just happened to hop directly into his point of view. Julien felt the giant hound tense up and his grip on the guide harness tightened.

“Teague, for the love of all that is holy d-“

Julien didn’t get to finish before the other quite literally yoinked him in the direction of the amphibian. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to Julien, there was a street sign hanging just off to the right of him. Right where Teague had leapt. Forehead clocking off the metal, he hit his back with a hiss and felt the warm liquid dropping from just above his brow as he turned on his side when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

“We…. Really need to stop meeting like this.” She sighed. Julien gave her a wry grin as he winced at the pressure being applied to his forehead. “To be fair…” he could hear Teague chomping away at the catch. “He was always meant to be a hunter.” Nova laughed as she moved, Julien assumed, to glance over at the pup. “Betcha he’s a real good graham cracker hunter, too.”

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Attal « obsédé » par les musulmans : Cyrielle Chatelain et le refrain de l’islamophobie

© Capture écran CNEWS Cyrielle Chatelain, députée EELV de la 2e circonscription de l’Isère, est aussi la seule présidente du groupe de son parti à l’Assemblée, depuis la mise à l’écart de Julien Bayou – pour les raisons que l’on sait. Et visiblement, à l’heure où la NUPES tangue, tiraillée entre le canal Mélenchon et la ligne Glucksmann, elle tient à réaffirmer son allégeance à LFI. C’est, en…

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L'ex-dirigeant d'EELV Julien Bayou, accusé de violences psychologiques, démissionne du parti

Frank Bou-Hassira : http://dlvr.it/T4y6hm

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Déplacement en avion d'Élisabeth Borne et Gabriel Attal à Rennes : "C'est une occasion manquée de faire preuve de pédagogie", regrette Julien Bayou

Le député écologiste dénonce le trajet en avion lundi 4 septembre de la Première ministre et du ministre de l'Éducation nationale en Bretagne, alors que l'entourage d'Élisabeth Borne se justifie d'une "exception". Il n'existe pas de consigne claire au sein du gouvernement sur l'usage de l'avion.

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“je suis blanchi”, “je suis innocenté”

“Je suis blanchi, je suis innocenté”: l’ex-secrétaire national d’EELV Julien Bayou, qui avait été mis en cause pour des violences psychologiques sur une ex-compagne, a dit mercredi vouloir “tourner la page” et reprendre pleinement son travail de député. La cellule interne d’Europe Ecologie-Les Verts dédiée aux violences sexistes et sexuelles a décidé le 1er février de “clore le dossier” le…

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20 Minutes: Affaire Julien Bayou : Sandrine Rousseau continuera « à soutenir la parole des femmes ».

Julien Bayou innocenté ?

Non.

Disons qu'il est soutenu par les plus hautes autorités de son parti sinon des partis !

Une sorte d'omerta plane sur le micro-cosme politique français...

La loi du silence parle contre la parole des femmes politiques.

Le sujet de l'article ce n'est pas Sandrine Rousseau, on montre du doigt ce député mais le sujet de l'article doit rester le citoyen J. Bayou !

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A Green MP wants to paint the roofs of our cars white

A Green MP wants to paint the roofs of our cars white

Julien Bayou has tabled an amendment so that the roofs of our houses become white. And imagine the same for our cars. What purpose ? Do you know the albedo effect? It is the ability of a surface to reflect solar energy. The lighter the surface, the greater this effect. This scientifically proven phenomenon gave an idea to the ecologist deputy Julien Bayou: to have the roofs of our houses and…

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Frying oil instead of diesel, an alternative soon to be authorized in France

Frying oil instead of diesel, an alternative soon to be authorized in France

What if a barrel of used oil could replace a barrel of oil? Particularly fashionable at the moment, the recycling of used cooking oil is in the news, either as fuel for the A380 or as coolant for a French data center. Imagining a fry shack becoming the main supplier of biofuel raw material for diesel vehicles can make you smile, but it is nevertheless the proposal made by Julien Bayou, a deputy…

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An environmentalist deputy denounces to the French Prosecutor the alleged links of Le Pen's party with Russia

An environmentalist deputy denounces to the French Prosecutor the alleged links of Le Pen’s party with Russia

Archive – The French far-right leader of the National Rally, Marine le Pen – Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/dp / DPA – File The French deputy for Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), Julien Bayou, issued a complaint this Wednesday to the Paris Prosecutor’s Office in which he accuses the party of the far-right Marine le Pen, National Group, of financing “illegally” from Russia . The environmentalist…