The former national secretary of EELV had resigned from his post after the report of his ex-companion to the investigation cell against sexual violence of his party was made public.
File closed. The investigation and sanction unit on harassment and sexual and sexist violence of Europe Écologie-Les Verts announced on Wednesday that it had closed the file targeting Julien Bayou. The former national secretary of EELV had been implicated by an ex-companion who had contacted the party cell in June 2022.
“The conditions for the application of the protocol could not be found and the initial hearing, the starting point of the investigation, could not take place”, indicates the executive office of the party in a press release.
The cell against sexual and sexist violence of EELV, “cannot (therefore) not carry out its investigation”, therefore indicates that it has “decided to close this file”.
A situation “satisfactory for no one”
“This situation is obviously not satisfactory for anyone and we regret the difficult human consequences that this procedure and its media exposure may have had,” adds the executive office of EELV.
Julien Bayou had resigned last September from his post as national secretary of the party. He then spoke of an “untenable situation” while Sandrine Rousseau, also a member of EELV, had indicated that he would have had “behaviours which are likely to break the moral health of women”.
