Nupes-EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau demanded on Wednesday August 3 that her colleague LR Aurélien Pradié apologize and be sanctioned for “
the manifest homophobia
” he would have expressed the day before during a remark on monkeypox.
The elected representative of Paris had posed a question to the government on Tuesday about monkey pox, which mainly affects men who have sex with men, evoking “
the shame suffered by patients with this disease
” because of its name.
At that time, "
Mr. Aurélien Pradié, it is noted in the minutes, then spoke in the Assembly (and said) ''It is above all a shame for the monkeys''
", lamented Sandrine Rousseau, who made a point of order in the name of "
discipline, immunity and ethics
".
“
I therefore ask that there be a public apology and that the case be studied in the conference of presidents so that a sanction is taken under the
she said during the final debate on the Purchasing Power Bill.
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The MP went to a vaccination center in the Paris region on Monday.
The next day, she co-signed a column published in the online newspaper HuffPost with other political figures, association representatives and citizens, in order to request the creation of a senatorial commission of inquiry into the government's action in the fight against monkey pox.
In the current wave, of which Europe is the epicenter, a large majority of patients have so far been men who have sex with men, relatively young, living mainly in cities, according to the World Health Organization ( WHO).
On the front line facing the disease, the LGBT+ community plays whistleblowers and asks the public authorities to hurry up.
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