PCF boss Fabien Roussel called on political parties on Tuesday to reflect together on a “framework of internal rules” to deal with violence against women, based on justice that must be “rapid” and “specialized”. On this subject, “there is a void, everyone takes their own device to fight against violence in their party, I suggest that we discuss it together, between political leaders of the left, of the right, we are all confronted with that”, proposed on BFMTV and RMC the deputy of the North, while the withdrawal of Adrien Quatennens from the coordination of La France insoumise due to domestic violence shakes the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Woman accuses Bayou of bad behavior, Rousseau says
On Monday, the deputy and finalist of the environmental primary Sandrine Rousseau reported on France 5 to have received at her home a woman accusing the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou of “behavior likely to break the moral health of women”. “Today we are being asked, people are being asked, to be the prosecutors in these cases, we are being asked, party leaders, business leaders, union leaders, to be the prosecutors and to judge and I think that it is not up to us to do it, it is up to justice to do it, and quickly”, explained Fabien Roussel.
“We need to have a framework”
“Should all of this be made public, as Sandrine Rousseau did, I have a doubt on that”, he warned, while specifying: “What I wish, it’s that women are protected, that they feel safe”. “We need to have a framework, rules, which allows us to know how we act,” he insisted.
“There is a real difficulty, it is that we have to do justice without being justice, I sincerely call for us to be able to think about it collectively, to create a framework for that, with perhaps a specialized justice, adapted to take into account this freedom of speech which does us so much good after #MeToo”, he continued.