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Threatened, Cécile Duflot quits Twitter "for a while" and files a complaint

2020-12-01T23:52:55.104Z


Former minister Cécile Duflot, now chief executive of Oxfam France, announced on Tuesday that she was temporarily quitting Twitter after receiving threats from a man already convicted of harassing her, and released excerpts from the messages received for, she said, that " this topic is moving forward ." Read also: Women politicians harassed on Twitter “ Dear people I like on Twitter and dear str


Former minister Cécile Duflot, now chief executive of Oxfam France, announced on Tuesday that she was temporarily quitting Twitter after receiving threats from a man already convicted of harassing her, and released excerpts from the messages received for, she said, that "

this topic is moving forward

."

Read also: Women politicians harassed on Twitter

Dear people I like on Twitter and dear strangers who like me, this message to tell you that I am going to go away for a while.

For 3 years a man has harassed me by different means.

There were 3 trials, he went to prison.

He has just started over again,

”tweeted the former Minister of Housing in the morning, very popular on this social network.

A complaint was filed Tuesday for “

harassment, malicious calls and death threats

” with the Pontoise prosecutor's office, said his lawyer, Me Tewfik Bouzenoune.

Claiming to be weakened by these “

dozens of messages, same argument and regular threats to kill me, rape my daughter and me or kill myself

”, Duflot adds a screenshot of one of the texts that was sent to him: “

I wanted only have a child with you if you were okay with it and I'm disgusted with how you reacted (sic).

If you didn't want me to insist, you just had to agree to have a relationship with me

”, we can read in particular.

The man, who has harassed the former minister for three years via messages or by contacting his employer and his relatives, was sentenced three times between April 2018 and September 2020, said his lawyer.

Jailed for a few months after his second conviction in December 2018, the young man, in his twenties, “

upon his release, resumed the harassment with a crescendo in violence (comments, editor's note).

We went from harassment to death threats

, ”added Me Bouzenoune.

"

It's not easy to talk about this, even for me, but since I think this subject needs to move forward, some people need to understand that it really exists, that the stupid speeches infuse on fragile minds and that the passage to the act exists

", adds Ms. Duflot, criticizing in passing the media which had presented in press articles a few years ago this man as a"

lover

"whose"

mad love the drove to jail

”.

"

Having a reflection on the terms to use in such cases, that would be chic,

" asks the former elected ecologist.

The crime of passion does not exist!

Presenting behaviors which are criminal offenses as the result of amorous behavior is to minimize them,

”regretted the lawyer for the former environmental manager.

This person claims to be in love, but she is not in love, she is harassing her!

“, Recalled Me Bouzenoune.

Cécile Duflot's series of tweets prompted dozens of supportive reactions, from anonymous, feminist activists, journalists and political figures.

"

Hate has no place on social networks

", reacted in particular the Minister Delegate for Equality Elisabeth Moreno.

Read also: Cécile Duflot, ecoloptimist

Source: lefigaro

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