In the Julien Bayou affair, the discarded testimony of an ex-partner and the embarrassment of Environmentalists | EUROtoday

At the assembly that he ended up accepting in a Parisian café, Julien Bayou arrives tense and virulent. Annoyed that we’re returning to the affair by which he was entangled for 3 years, he’s on the identical time keen to claim his fact, as soon as and for all. “How are you going to introduce me?”questions the previous nationwide secretary of the Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) celebration, which grew to become Les Ecologistes in 2024. Presumed harmless? I’m not accused of something. Or exonerated? That can be the fitting time period. »

On January 30, 2025, the previous Paris deputy benefited from a dismissal, for lack of offense, within the authorized proceedings opened after the accusations of his ex-partner between 2018 and 2021, Anaïs Leleux. On March 4, 2024, the latter filed a criticism towards Julien Bayou for “fraudulent abuse of a state of weakness”, the outcome, in accordance with her, of a relationship punctuated by psychological violence. Facts thought-about as not characterised by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace, after investigation by the brigade for the repression of delinquency towards the individual (BRDP).

End of story? Not fairly. This judicial conclusion didn’t put an actual finish to “the Julien Bayou affair”. Converted right into a lawyer, the principle individual involved is bitter: the celebration, which he led from 2019 to 2022, by no means put the phrase – “innocent” – on his case that he anticipated. “We note that at the end of the investigation, the public prosecutor does not accuse Julien Bayou of any offense”was content material to watch, on February 22, 2025, the chief workplace of the Ecologists. Four months earlier, the identical physique had not imposed any sanctions towards him, on the premise of an inside audit entrusted to the specialised legislation agency Pisan.

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