Caught up by her stalker.
Former Minister Cécile Duflot announced Tuesday that she was temporarily leaving Twitter after receiving threats from a man already convicted of harassing her, and made public extracts of the messages received for, she said, that "this subject advance ”.
"Dear people I like on Twitter and dear strangers who like me, this message to tell you that I will be going away for a while, tweeted the Executive Director of Oxfam France in the morning.
For three years, a man has harassed me in various ways.
There were three trials, he went to jail.
He just started over again ”.
Dear people I like on Twitter and dear strangers who like me, this message to tell you that I will be leaving for a while.
For 3 years a man has harassed me by different means.
There were 3 trials, he went to prison.
He just checked out again pic.twitter.com/D6VCmJFxVF
- Cécile Duflot (@CecileDuflot) December 1, 2020
Claiming to be weakened by these "dozens of messages, same argument and regular threats to kill me, rape my daughter and me or kill themselves", the former Minister of Housing, very followed on the social network, adds a screenshot of 'one of the texts that was addressed to him.
“I only wanted to have a child with you if you were okay with it and I'm disgusted with how you reacted.
If you didn't want me to insist, you just had to agree to have a relationship with me ”, we can read in particular.
Sentenced three times
The man, who has been harassing the former minister for three years via messages or by contacting his employer and his relatives, was sentenced three times between April 2018 and September 2020. A new complaint was filed Tuesday for "harassment, calls malicious and death threats ”to the Pontoise prosecutor's office, according to Me Tewfik Bouzenoune, who defends the former minister.
Jailed for a few months after his second conviction in December 2018, the young man, in his twenties, “upon his release, resumed the harassment with a crescendo in violence (comments).
We went from harassment to death threats, ”recalls Me Bouzenoune.
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Cécile Duflot's series of tweets elicited dozens of reactions of support, anonymous, feminist activists, journalists and political figures.
"Hate has no place on social networks", reacted in particular the Minister for Equality Élisabeth Moreno.
