History stutters for Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) and La France insoumise (LFI). Eighteen months after the cases involving the “rebellious” deputy from the North Adrien Quatennens, convicted of domestic violence, and his environmentalist colleague from Paris Julien Bayou, accused of psychological violence by his ex-partner, the two left-wing parties are once again facing the #metoo wave.
Tuesday March 5, The Parisian revealed that the LFI deputy for Seine-et-Marne Ersilia Soudais had filed a complaint of rape against her companion, Damien Cassé, a “rebellious” municipal councilor from Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne). In the process, the first left-wing party published a press release protesting against the publication of the name of the elected official, “without the consent of the victim”. “How will women victims of violence still be able to file a complaint? »the missive asks.
Before The Parisian, it was Alice Cordier, director of the Némésis identity collective, who began to uncover the affair. Monday March 4, the activist mentioned on the social network “rape” filed by “a well-publicized MP from LFI (…) against his spouse, also elected LFI”. “Out of discretion, I will not give a name”, she added. Enough to sow trouble within the left.
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“It’s amazing to see that, when a left-wing elected official files a complaint, it first comes out in far-right networks”is moved by the environmentalist deputy of Paris Sandrine Rousseau nearby World. The latter hopes that a “administrative investigation” will open and invites the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to seize this leak. On Wednesday March 6, the public prosecutor of Meaux confirmed the holding of a preliminary investigation into charges of “rape by spouse”, “malicious telephone calls”, “moral harassment” and “psychological violence” following a complaint filed on March 2.
But, this Wednesday, there is another passage from the LFI press release, calling “respect for privacy” and to “the private life of Ersilia Soudais” which startled several elected officials, particularly women. This rhetoric reminded them of the Quatennens affair. In September 2022, after recognizing a “slap” inflicted on his ex-partner, the deputy had also invoked respect for ” his private life “. He had been comforted by the leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had reduced the accusations to one “conflictual divorce”. The elected official from the North was finally sentenced to four months in prison for domestic violence.
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