We can only be in solidarity with this appeal, so I pass it on to you, but the thing that made me laugh out loud this morning is that he is the "husband" ofEmmanuelle Cosse !
In any case, media as well as politicians, they fool us so much (and for so many years...), that they believe themselves untouchable...
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A column in "Liberation" signed by 500 officials, activists and elected officials denounces the impunity of harassers and calls for breaking the law of silence.
In the aftermath of accusations against the ecologist deputy Denis Baupin, a collective of 500 activists and elected officials from all sides publishes this Tuesday, May 10 an appeal in "Liberation" "so that impunity ends" against the perpetrators of sexual harassment. A petition launched in parallel on the Change.org website is also approaching 5000 supporters on Tuesday morning.
This collective called "Levons l'omerta", at the initiative of which we find in particular the feminist Caroline de Haas, writes that "the difficulty of women to speak about this type of violence is general, but undoubtedly amplified in the political microcosm, where more than elsewhere they must never appear weak, embody a posture opposite to that of a victim".
"'If Truc offers you to dine at the restaurant, say no.' 'Above all, don't take the elevator alone with What's-his-name.' 'Be careful if you stay alone in the office with So-and-so in the evening.' 'If Bidule is there, close the door but don't speak.' These sentences, they are passed between women. They circulate discreetly, even whisper to each other. These sentences say it all. [...] Above all, they say that these So-and-so, What and What will continue, since it is never to them that the we are addressing, but to women who must support, avoid or deal with it", denounce the signatories. Just a year ago, May 5, 2015 in "Libération", 40 female political journalists signed an appeal entitled "Hands off" : they had "bravely put, in the public debate, this question of relations between men and women, of sexism in politics, and of these few cases of politicians who express by their behavior and in a particularly infamous way male domination" , recalls the tribune of this Tuesday.
"What follow-up has been given by the political parties at this platform? What measures have been taken? What contacts have been made to try to find out the identity of the people targeted and to remedy these behaviors? The answer is none or practically; tremors quite insufficient."
"For the guilt to change sides"
"For it is the behavior of men that changes and not that of women that adapts, for things to finally move and impunity to end, for guilt to change sides, we must speak", write the signatories who want "just to say thank you here" to the women "who had the courage to break the law of silence".
“It is clearly only by denouncing people publicly that things are likely to move forward. Indeed, few complaints are filed. And when they are, they rarely result in legal proceedings. financials' are often the preferred way of managing the aggression instead of a real trial."
The ecologist deputy of Paris Denis Baupin, husband of the Minister of Housing Emmanuelle Cosse, resigned Monday from his post of vice-president of the National Assembly a few hours after being questioned by elected ecologists, of whom 4 spoke face to face, for "harassment" or "sexual assault". Among them, Sandrine Rousseau, spokesperson for EELV, who launched Monday evening a call for testimonies not prescribed : most of the testimonies published in Mediapart and broadcast on France Inter on Monday indeed concern facts that are too old to file a complaint (more than 3 years).
Behaviors (touching, obscene messages, blackmail) that Denis Baupin fiercely denies, denouncing "false, defamatory and [un]founded allegations". Monday evening, the former spokesperson for the Greens, who had left EELV last month, withdrawn from the environmental group in the Assembly to "organize" his defence.
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