Sexual harassment: Sophie Tissier filed a complaint against Eric Coquerel – archyde

She had publicly denounced on Sunday an “offensive, harassing” behavior towards her by the LFI deputy Éric Coquerel. Left-wing activist Sophie Tissier filed a complaint on Monday for “sexual harassment” against the man who was elected this week as chairman of the Assembly’s Finance Committee. the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office (Hauts-de-Seine) which explains that the complaint was lodged at the Vanves police station and that “the competent public prosecutor’s office and its orientation” have yet to be determined. “May my word be taken into account” Sophie Tissier, a former figure of the Yellow Vests, announced this weekend that he had made a report to the LFI sexual violence monitoring committee and filed a “pre-complaint”. “I wanted to wait for the pressure to drop to talk about it, but the media are what they are… It’s done. Let my word be taken into account, “she said on Twitter, adding a photo of her complaint for” sexual harassment and gestures that may amount to sexual assault “. She also castigates “this denial of the FI (rebellious France) and its VSS committee (sexual and sexist violence) which did not even contact me…” This denial of the FI and its “VSS committee” which did not even not contacted… I therefore confirm that I have filed a complaint for “sexual harassment and gestures that may be similar to sexual assault”
There are witnesses. #coquerel knows perfectly well deep down that he is lying… please. pic.twitter.com/aasK89dsta— Sophie Tissier Officiel (@sophietissier23) July 4, 2022 After a tweet at midday on Sunday, she had described at the start of the evening on BFMTV “inappropriate gestures, wandering hands”, during a an evening organized by the party in 2014, evoking “a salacious, sticky look”, and during the dance evening “a clumsy pick-up”, “outrageous, offensive, harassing” behavior on the part of the deputy. According to Ms. Tissier, Éric Coquerel also sent her text messages offering to take her to his hotel. Éric Coquerel denies the facts “It was not a physical attack in the sense that there was no violence physical “, she judged, “but the harassment, it was still traumatic”. “I do not want him to go so far as to resign”, but “that he recognize the facts, that He hears what I have to say and says yes, it’s true, I behaved inappropriately, ”she added. Sophie Tissier also said she spoke about it openly in the party, especially at the party. LFI MEP Leila Chaibi and press officer Juliette Prados. Interviewed earlier on BFMTV, Eric Coquerel had again challenged any inappropriate behavior towards women and started a counter-offensive: “I will look at the file, I will see. I do not rule out filing a complaint for defamation”, he said, considering about his accuser that “there will be no complaint” and that “it will be pschitt”.