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Harassment at the hospital: “It’s defamation”, contests Patrick Pelloux

2024-04-15T06:01:49.214Z

Highlights: In an Instagram post, the head of a French health insurance company said he was "stunned" by the #MeToo movement. The hashtag was created in response to a video showing a woman being sexually assaulted by a man. The video was posted on the social media site Twitter. The woman, who has not been named, said she wanted to raise awareness about sexual violence. The man, who was not named, was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the video. He was also accused of sexual assault, but the woman said she didn't want to make a fuss about it, she just wanted people to be aware of what was going on. She also said she did not want to cause any harm to anyone who was already suffering from sexual violence, which she said was common in her country. The incident occurred in the city of Paris, where the woman lives. The victim, a woman named Marie-Louise, was a student at the University of Paris. She said she was shocked by the video, which showed her being sexually abused.


In an Instagram post on Sunday evening, the emergency physician defended himself after infectious disease specialist Karine Lacombe spoke out, accusing him of “moral and sexual harassment”, triggering a real #MeToo in the hospital sector.


“It’s defamation

. ”

In an Instagram post published Sunday evening, emergency physician Patrick Pelloux reacted for the first time to the accusations of sexual harassment to which he is the subject. Earlier in the week, as part of a

Paris Match

investigation , Karine Lacombe, head of the infectious diseases hospital department at Saint-Antoine hospital (Paris) accused the doctor of

“sexual and moral harassment”.

Already in her book

Women will save the hospital

(Stock, 2023), she described him as a man with a

“lustful gaze”,

“wandering hands”

and

with

“behavior marked by domination”.

On Instagram, the emergency media said he was

"stunned to learn of Karine Lacombe's accusations and the rumors relayed in this article (that of Paris Match, Editor's note)",

which he

"strongly contests". “I do not wish to react further today in order to preserve the serenity of useful debates around sexism and sexual violence,”

says the doctor, also a former columnist for

Charlie Hebdo. “I thank my loved ones, my colleagues, my colleagues and all those who have given me their support in recent days

. ”

Karine Lacombe's speech triggered a real

#MeToo

in the hospital sector. In the wake of the publication of the investigation, the infectious disease specialist received dozens of messages from young doctors denouncing sexual harassment from their superiors. Karine Lacombe herself declared that the example of Patrick Pelloux, against whom she does not intend to file a complaint, was only a means of freeing speech to a broader extent.

“I spoke about him, but what I am trying to denounce above all is a general atmosphere,”

the head of the hospital infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine hospital

explained to Le

Figaro on Saturday.

Source: lefigaro

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