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Célina Pina: "The Éric Coquerel affair or the funny conception of justice of the Insoumis"

2022-07-04T17:22:49.086Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The arguments and methods used by the apparatus of La France Insoumise to defend Lieutenant de Mélenchon against accusations of harassment or sexual assault show his rare cynicism, argues the essayist.


Former local elected official, Céline Pina is an essayist and activist.

She is the founder of "Viv(r)e la République", she has also published

Guilty Silence

(Kero, 2016) and

These Essential Goods

(Bouquins, 2021).

“The Capitol is close to the Tarpeian rock.”

The entire management of the LFI, Éric Coquerel in the lead, must have meditated on this expression.

They should have celebrated a political success, they had to deal with a scandal.

When you want to make someone bite the dust, sometimes the surest way is to propel them to the heights.

Not that this was the intention of France Insoumise.

By winning the coveted post of Chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, the party wanted to seize a place in the sun guaranteeing it power, influence and the ability to weigh in a political game whose center shifts from the Élysée at the Palais Bourbon.

Alas, this apotheosis very quickly took on the appearance of a discomfiture.

In question, rumors about the behavior of Éric Coquerel towards women.

All the LFI leaders, positioned in defense mode, screamed at the political destabilization and threw all their weight to block the floor.

They thus bet everything on a narrative which transformed any testimony on the inappropriate attitude of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's relative into a betrayal which can only serve the cause of the far right.

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La France Insoumise has given so many lessons, with so much arrogance, that watching its leaders stumble over what they blame others for is a rather comical turn of events.

Celine Pina

It must be said that there is fire in the LFI house because it has given so many lessons, with so much arrogance, that watching its leaders stumble over what they reproach others for is quite a reversal of the situation. funny.

The figures of the movement have forgotten that while a company may be too big to fail, a politician is only interesting to bring down if he is powerful.

It is not morality that directs media inquiries but the logic of the trophy.

It is necessary to bring down a minister or the president of the Finance Commission, when the power returns to the Assembly, so that the game interests the general public.

In this sense Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not wrong to notice the concomitance between the presidency obtained by Éric Coquerel and the resumption by the press of accusations which however do not date from yesterday and of which we find the official trace from 2018. At the time, the magazine

Causette

published a well-documented article on the prevailing sexism within the LFI.

The paper notably calls into question the behavior of a deputy who is sexually harassed.

We know today that it was already Eric Coquerel.

A counter-fire of a formidable cynicism is installed.

It takes the form of the creation of a “monitoring committee against sexist and sexual violence” within the party.

This committee is entrusted to Danielle Simonnet who, fortunately, is Éric Coquerel's alter ego.

Celine Pina

A counter-fire of a formidable cynicism is installed.

It takes the form of the creation of a "monitoring committee against sexist and sexual violence" within the party.

This committee is then entrusted to Danielle Simonnet who, fortunately, is precisely the alter ego of Éric Coquerel at the head of the party.

Nothing like locking the device.

The fire lit by the article in

Causette

and the mobilization of the activists concerned will quickly be stifled.

Also when Rokhaya Diallo denounced a few days ago the complacency of LFI with regard to a man whose modesty said that his behavior raises questions, Manuel Bompard takes up the same line of defense:

"If Rokhaya Diallo has information, that it directs people to the bodies set up within our movement.

They will be dealt

with."

Treated mainly by oblivion if we are to believe the reactions of a certain number of personalities who claim to have testified at the time to the attitude of the deputy.

Amandine Fouillard, ex-LFI and feminist activist, responds with a public tweet to Manuel Bompard that she spoke about it with him during the creation of the famous fight cell.

So he can't ignore the problem.

We can also see that a column published on March 27, 2019 in "the media" and signed by LFI activists also denounces the absence of reactions to the facts which

Causette

echoed.

Panic seems to win over the leaders of France Insoumise because their denial is felt as a provocation by some victims and some witnesses of the facts denounced.

The testimonials then multiplied on social networks.

It is first Sophie Tissier, figure of the movement of "yellow vests", who evokes a very inappropriate behavior during an evening in 2014;

Tatiana Ventôse, host of Fil d'Actu explains that no one was unaware of this point at the LFI, the attitude of the character being the subject of joke and resulting in the nicknames with which he was decked out, from "

Coqueraide

" to "

Berluscoquerel

".

Tommy Lasserre, editor of Le Fil d'Actu reports the inappropriate behavior that Éric Coquerel would have had with a minor according to her father.

Anonymous people denounce on the networks a situation which would be of public notoriety internally to the organization.

But it is necessary to save the soldier Coquerel, then the same strategy as during the Taha Bouhafs case is put in place.

It is first Éric Coquerel who defends himself from any accusation and victimizes himself by explaining that “

a just cause like MeToo can be exploited

”.

It was Jean-Luc Mélenchon who, in a tweet, thundered against "

the hijacking of the fight against gender-based violence to smear Éric Coquerel after his victory over the far right

."

A form of "

manipulative revenge

", which according to the leader of LFI "

seriously harms the feminist fight

".

The sequence is very similar to how the Bouhafs scandal began.

Celine Pina

The sequence is very similar to how the Bouhafs scandal began.

The mode of crisis management is currently identical in the denial phase and the attempted reversal of the accusation.

In the case of Taha Bouhafs, it was by suggesting to activists that by denouncing the unworthy behavior of this LFI figure, they were fueling “systemic racism” that they were asked to be silent.

Anti-racism acting as a gag against sexist behavior.

In the case of Éric Coquerel, women are encouraged to be discreet in the name of anti-fascism.

According to the story developed by the party, if Éric Coquerel is attacked, it is because this noble hero prevented the RN from seizing the finance commission.

To destabilize it is therefore to serve the interests of the extreme right.

And as to enforce this type of ideological injunction, it is better to keep control of the procedure, we find in the two cases a manifest refusal to address complaints to Justice and a clear desire to manage violence against women by internal party bodies.

It must be said that this type of authority is expressly made to wash the dirty linen in family so that the interest of the party is always privileged.

And the interest of the party is to save Éric Coquerel, not to do justice to potential victims.

During the Damien Abad affair, Sandrine Rousseau explained that “the presumption of innocence does not prevent the precautionary principle”.

His opinion is different when the accusation touches a man belonging to his camp: “Without direct testimony, one cannot base oneself on the rumour”.

Celine Pina

It was obvious that the posture carried by the left which calls itself progressive, indicating that one must believe the testimony of a woman because it is a woman, is neither tenable nor fair.

The "

we believe you

" has a limit: the quest for truth.

However, we are witnessing a curious reversal of the situation.

Where during the Damien Abad affair, a Sandrine Rousseau explained that "

the presumption of innocence does not prevent the precautionary principle

", her opinion is different when the accusation affects a man belonging to her political camp: "S

Without direct testimony, one cannot rely on rumour

”.

As a general rule, it is better to investigate an accusation before convicting someone, but with the Nupes left, clan logic comes before justice.

This left which wants to converge struggles likes above all to prioritize them.

She therefore uses anti-racism to silence women who would denounce someone from the clan as long as he is "racialized" and anti-fascism to silence anyone who threatens a powerful apparatchik.

The interests of the party come before respect for victims, the relationship to truth and social justice.

As for the "follow-up committee against gender-based and sexual violence", its only role is to put victims to sleep and prevent cases from being brought to justice.

Activists have long accepted this charade, party leaders now support this attitude.

Will they obtain the silence of the victims?

Source: lefigaro

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