LThe withdrawal and the “media silence” announced by his entourage on September 20 did not last long. Six days later, Julien Bayou resigned from his post as national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts. The ex-ecologist boss lamented in a press release, Monday, September 26, to be “accused of facts which [lui] are not presented, of which [ses] accusers say they are not criminally reprehensible, and whose [il] can’t[t] not [se] defend since we refuse to [l]’To hear. It’s Kafka in the age of social networks. »
His statement does not dissipate the thick fog around the facts of which he is accused, after his public questioning, a few days earlier, by Sandrine Rousseau on the set of the program “C à vous”. Bayou’s lawyer, M.e Marie Dosé, assured, Monday during a press conference, that her client “has never exercised the slightest psychological violence towards his companions”, denouncing a “vulgar unpacking” and “the instrumentalization of the just fight against sexual and gender-based violence for political ends”, two months from the EELV congress. With this departure, the former leader of the Greens puts an end, as he underlines in his press release, to “more than nine years of commitment in the direction of the movement”.
“I looked for the party or the union where I could get involved, but I have not yet found the shoe that suits me. » Julien Bayou, in 2008
For a long time, Julien Bayou campaigned on the sidelines of parties. On November 12, 2008, in a “Campus” supplement to the World titled “What have student leaders become? », François Schott paints the portrait of a 28-year-old young man who “made itself the spokesperson for underpaid trainees by creating Génération précaire and for students who were victims of rising rents by founding Jeudi noir”.
Son of very committed sixty-eighters, Julien Bayou, after studying economics in Strasbourg then at Sciences Po Paris, then worked for a coordination of NGOs. But “a new kind of activist” confides to the journalist that he feels more useful in his associative activities. “To implement his ideas, writes François Schott, it also envisages a political commitment. “It would be an extension of my militant action. I looked for the party or the union where I could get involved, but I haven’t yet found the shoe that suited me”, he regrets. »
Punching actions
Julien Bayou is then part of this new generation of “supporters of militant laughter”, abstract The World Magazine in September 2009. Young people, “committed facetious”, followers of punching actions and active on the Internet – “it’s in a cybercafé that Julien Bayou makes an appointment”, notes Hubert Prolongeau. These new activists have “the same desire to shake things up, the same ideas (to resist capitalism rather than to belong to a party), the same awareness of the importance of the media and the same desire to have fun”.
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