She salutes “a victory for all women”. The winemaker accused of having insulted Sandrine Rousseau in 2023 in the Aude, shouting “will make the soup, slut!” Was sentenced to a fine of 2,500 euros suspended on Friday, said the environmental member. The 65 -year -old winegrower will also have to pay him a symbolic euro of damages, as she had asked.
The incriminated remarks were made on June 12, 2023, while the National Secretary of Ecologists Marine Tondelier and Sandrine Rousseau, who came to support the opponents of a golf project in Aude, had been taken to task by winegrowers Angry Audois who wanted to prevent them from accessing a wine estate to meet activists.
Sandrine Rousseau had underlined “physical intimidation” suffered that day and “sexist” remarks aimed in particular to “deny (her) mandates” and to exclude women from “public debate”. Shortly after the hearing, she also mentioned disagreements with these winegrowers about the use of pesticides to which environmentalists oppose, adding that today, “one can neither poison nature nor put women in the kitchen”.
“It’s not things to say. It’s not good. I apologize to Madame Rousseau, if she wants to accept them, “said the 65 -year -old winegrower at the helm, stressing that,” tired “by her long working days, he was not in his” normal state “at the time of the facts.
“A victory for all women”
The court’s decision “is a victory for all women,” said Sandrine Rousseau on Friday evening. “No one must be assigned to the soup or be treated salewhich is at the origin of the word slut, ”she said.
On March 28, at the hearing, the prosecutor Géraldine Labialle had required 3,000 euros fineincluding 2,000 suspended sentences, denouncing in particular remarks “imprinted with uninhibited sexism and misogyny” constituting “outrage to a person responsible for public service”.
Last March, on the sidelines of an audience of this trial, Sandrine Rousseau had been targeted by an egg jet when he left the court.
