Julien Dray settles accounts with the PS and the press


Julien Dray revealed on Radio J that he had canceled a family trip to Israel during the investigation because "I had reports that some were about to explain that I had fled to Israel as other personalities" . Photo credits: AFP
PS The member of Essonne, bleached by the Justice blasted the silence of the PS and accuses Le Monde and Liberation of having "acted as editors activists, paying previous political battles."


Four days after being cleared by the court, after an investigation for "breach of trust" presumed, Julien Dray empty heart. Visiting Radio J, the socialist deputy of Essonne again denounced the attitude of the PS and engaged in a violent charge against Le Monde and Liberation. "I think the PS has not grown. I think his spokesman in the early days would have recalled a number of principles, "Julien Dray has launched, aimed Benoît Hamon. When legal problems Julien Dray, the PS had made discreet and had refrained from words of support too ostentatious. Benoît Hamon, and was soberly explained to the outbreak of the scandal: "Julien Dray is presumed innocent, secondly, it is the subject of a preliminary hearing but was not indicted, and thirdly, it is a matter private.

Julien Dray also noted that the first secretary of the PS, Martine Aubry, had still not phoned since the decision of the prosecution. The relationship between the two bosses are particularly strained since November when the PS was excluded, pending the decision of Justice, the regional list in the Essonne. For MP, this censorship could only come from above, as he said in a note posted on his blog.
A "debate on how the press malfunction"

But it is against the press that the former Trotskyite activist has been hardest on Sunday, accusing him of having lynched. "In this case, the editors have acted as editors activists, settling old scores of past political battles," he said. "I think that two editors will continue with odd not admit they were wrong," he said quoting Liberation and Le Monde. "I now request the press to respect the basic principles," demanded the deputy who wants a "debate on how it works or rather dysfunctional."

However, Julien Dray gave a good neighbor in the Essonne, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who left the Socialist Party to form the Left Party. "I have always been hard to see Jean-Luc from PS and it is a defeat of PS as having lost." Also departing from the opposition of some socialists on the question of national identity, Julien Dray has encouraged the left to participate in the debate launched by the government and Immigration Minister Eric Besson.

"I do not know if this debate is justified and desirable but it is there and we must respond," said the founder of SOS Racisme. "This shows that the debate on French identity, tensions are racist, rejection ... Why hide? Instead, to solve these problems we must discuss, "he added. "The Nation exists only through the Republic. I talked about a debate on the Republican identity, "noted the deputy who said that Nicolas Sarkozy had" beaten "in Copenhagen. "The President of the United States has not lived up to the challenge that represents the future of the planet. The United States played the first U.S. industry in an agreement with China, "he lamented Julien Dray.