Nupes-EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau demanded on Wednesday that her colleague LR Aurélien Pradié apologize and be sanctioned for the "manifest homophobia" he allegedly expressed the day before during a remark on monkey pox, which he disputes.
Reminder of the rules: @sandrousseau requests a sanction against @AurelienPradie (LR) because of "manifest homophobia" of a word he would have pronounced in the hemicycle of the National Assembly. #DirectAN #PJLPouvoirdAchat pic.twitter.com/pCGiyN2jjZ
– LCP (@LCP) August 3, 2022
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".
Rousseau calls for a public apology
“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 for the manifest homophobia of this remark”, she affirmed to the during the final debate on the Purchasing Power Bill.
Aurélien Pradié rejected these accusations: “I will always fight against homophobia and all forms of discrimination.
Always,” he wrote on Twitter.
“To imagine for a single second that I wanted to say such a thing is sickening.
To those who may have believed it and been hurt, I say my deep sadness, “said the deputy, assuring that” respect for all, was (his) life “.
I will always fight against homophobia and all forms of discrimination.
Still.
To imagine for a single second that I wanted to say such a thing is sickening.
To those who believed it and were hurt, I say my deep sadness.
Respect for all is my life.
https://t.co/eAuCA47Ivj
– Aurélien Pradié (@AurelienPradie) August 3, 2022
Sandrine Rousseau 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 the whistleblowers and asks the public authorities to hurry up.