Sandrine Rousseau cries. It’s not much, just a tear running down her cheek. The deputy (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, EELV) from Paris interrupts. She was in the process of retelling the story of the Denis Baupin affair, this tenor of the environmentalist party whom she accused, in 2016, of sexual assault. Five other women stood by his side to denounce the harassment and malicious telephone calls of the former vice-president of the National Assembly.
A year later, she left her party and political life. After having failed, in passing, to take the head of the movement, then to be elected deputy. “ At that moment, I sinkshe rewinds. In the party, they don’t understand. They don’t realize. It was a tough time, it’s still hard to talk about it… »she apologizes, before staring into space.
“As soon as I open my mouth, I have the impression that half of France is in a lateral position of safety. » Sandrine Rousseau
At the beginning of September, Sandrine Rousseau has not yet caused the resignation of Julien Bayou, the national secretary of EELV, by spreading on television in a nebulous way the accusations of psychological violence that the ex-companion of this last bears against him. From “McCarthyism”, he counter-attacked, accusing his rival, in an interview with the Worldof“instrumentalize” private “for political purposes”.
For the moment, France is rehashing the latest polemic offered by the deputy, who sees the barbecue as a “ symbol of masculinity » pushing to consume ever more meat, to the detriment of the environment. The fire takes so well that men sometimes stop in the street to insult him. “ As soon as I open my mouth, I have the impression that half of France is in a lateral position of safety »she pretends to be surprised by a vegetarian risotto, in a restaurant at 13e district of the capital, his chosen land and his place of residence since June.
What to do with these tears? It is rare for a politician to give free rein to such transport in front of a journalist. Is she trying to soften her interlocutor or is she sincerely exhausted by the controversies she generates? “ Sandrine has a relationship to commitment centered on what she experiences, it is a driving force. She’s always out of breath, in pain, with a sacrificial side »analyzes MEP David Cormand, former boss of EELV, who does not carry it in his heart.
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