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Accusations against Coquerel: the committee against sexual violence of LFI seized, the elected official denounces a "rumor"

2022-07-03T11:34:00.487Z


The figure of the Yellow Vest Sophie Tissier, who claims to have suffered the "inappropriate" behavior of the deputy, announced this Sunday that she had s


He firmly denies.

Guest of BFMTV this Sunday noon, the LFI deputy, Éric Coquerel, assured that he had "never had in (his) life something that could be akin to behavior of harassment or aggression".

Last week, the author and activist Rokhaya Diallo had mentioned, without further details, “sources within LFI” questioning the behavior of the elected official with certain women.

His case should not be “compared” to that of Damien Abad, a “minister who finds himself with actual complaints for rape, testimonies for rape published in the newspapers”, estimated the new president of the Finance Committee on the continuous news channel.

For him, conversely, “rumor is not enough.

I believe there will be no complaints.

All of this is going to be pschitt, ”he predicted.

Earlier this Sunday, in a column published in the JDD, Éric Coquerel had already denied the accusations, denouncing "unfounded rumors".

A complainant says she seized the committee

So far, the party assured that it was only rumors and the committee against sexual violence of La France insoumise had even said Thursday that it had not been seized.

But things have since changed.

According to information from BFMTV, confirmed to Le Parisien this Sunday, Sophie Tissier, a figure in the Yellow Vests movement, said that she had seized this committee.

On Twitter, she explained that she had "suffered" the behavior of the deputy, evoking "sticky wandering hands and inappropriate attacks in 2014".

I know because I suffered.

I attest.

#Coquerel stalker with sticky wandering hands and inappropriate assaults in 2014 during the PG summer universities.

I felt a deep unease I didn't know where it would stop.

I had clearly expressed my refusal to him.

He didn't care.

https://t.co/FFsxRZpCNB

— Sophie Tissier Official (@sophietissier23) July 2, 2022

“It is not a simple rumor since I testify, I attest”, explains Sophie Tissier to us this Sunday, saying to herself “disgusted” by the lively defense of Éric Coquerel on BFMTV.

"It's not pleasant for me to talk about all this again, and it has nothing to do with revenge", she assures us, specifying that she would not have taken the floor again. these facts, which would have taken place during an evening in 2014, if Rokhaya Diallo had not first mentioned them.

“Indeed, it was not reprehensible behavior (by law), but it was harassment, gestures more than inappropriate and morally reprehensible”, judge Sophie Tissier.

“I felt insecure because of his behavior,” she told us.

And to conclude that she does not want the deputy to resign, but that he, and his party, “recognize that his behavior was inappropriate”.

Source: leparis

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