Sexual harassment : Jean Lassalle, presidential candidate, refutes have put “one hand on the buttocks” – Gala

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Jean Lassalle was targeted on Sunday night, by the tweet of a former parliamentary attaché, who is accused of having put the hand to the buttocks to the Assembly. On Tuesday, the former presidential candidate has denied the accusations, his team, explaining : “He belongs to a generation or a hand on the shoulder or a hand on the hip is more of friendship than of perversity “.

In response to the call to denounce the harassers and sexual abusers on Twitter dubbed #balancetonporc, Julia Castanier, head of communications of the French communist Party, has posted on Sunday evening, a tweet in which she says that Jean Lassalle, member of parliament for the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, put a hand on the buttocks while she was a young assistant parliamentarian of 25 years. Asked about his silence at the time of the facts, Julia Castanier explains : “at the time, you say nothing because he is a member and that you are a collaborator, a young moreover. “

Warned by his son, and then asked about the social networks of the accusations aimed, Jean Lassalle defended, this Tuesday, of having committed such an action, in the columns of the newspaper Sud-Ouest : “I do not know this lady. I don’t remember this episode “, claimed the former candidate for the presidential election. And add : “On has been able to accuse me of being a little macho in my way of talking about certain situations, but I was never accused of this type of behavior. Here is a little more than 40 years that I have been working with a majority of women in my entourage, and there was never the slightest difficulty. “

The team of the former shepherd béarn, says his side have tried to contact in vain for Julia Castanier, and tries to explain : “Jean Lassalle do not remember such a gesture. But if that was the case, he would apologize. Jean Lassalle likes to joke. He belongs to a generation or a hand on the shoulder or a hand on the hip is more of friendship than of perversity “. For the moment, Julia Castanier has not responded to these allegations.

J was 25 years old and I was parliamentary attaché. By going to the chamber, @jeanlassalle m has put a hand to the buttocks. #balancetonporc

— Julia Castanier (@JuliaCastanier) October 15, 2017Jean Lassalle

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