Marine Rosset, the president of the Scouts of France, resigned after being targeted by the extreme right

POLITICS – Two short months. Marine Rosset will only have stayed two months at the head of the Scouts and Guides of France. She announces her resignation this Wednesday, August 6 in the newspaper The cross. “The situation had become untenable”she justifies to the Catholic newspaper.

As of his appointment on June 14, Marine Rosset had been under fire of criticism, especially from the most conservative fringe of the Catholic world. Aged 39, she was candidate NFPs then NFP in the legislative elections of 2022 and 2024. This former professor of history-geography in Seine-Saint-Denis, inserted in the Socialist Party, is also an adviser to the 5th arrondissement of Paris. But what caused the most hostility was his homosexuality and his defense of a progressive vision of society.

In 2024, she insisted in the magazine of the Ex-Students of Sciences Po on the importance of protecting “The rights of women and homosexuals” and recalled his attachment to “Right to abort”. “When one aspires to exercise responsibilities in a Catholic association, it seems to me essential not to publicly defend positions in contradiction with the teaching of the Church”had dryly cropped on X Father Clément Barré, priest of the diocese of Bordeaux and member of the Scouts and Guides of France.

The extreme right has rushed into the controversy, ultra -conservative media like Boundaries or Boulevard Voltaire Believing that the personal life of Marine Rosset was incompatible with the exercise of his functions at the head of the Scout movement.

“I am angry”

A choice ” daring », « it makes mesur “, Judged the latter, sentenced to provocation to hatred in 2014 and customary fake news. The site Christian columnwondered if he had to add a verse on “ The fight against gender stereotypes » In a famous scout song. Pointing hollow the fear that the Catholic scout movement will lose its “ soul “.

A violent criticism which therefore pushes Marine Rosset to withdrawal. “After my election, there were people, outside scouting, political forces, communications, even financial, who have instrumentalized positions that I could haveshe regrets today in The cross. He resulted in a false image of Scouts and Guides of France ”.

Marine Rosset is aware of having become “The object of a hatred”. “I no longer had the opportunity to have a free word like any citizen”. Adding: “I am angry because we have sometimes been able to question my faith because of my homosexuality. It’s hurtful “. It is also to protect her family that Marine Rosset explains that she had resigned.

However, she always says she is attached to the scout movement and does not bother: “Is it possible to be homosexual and president of a Catholic movement?” Yes, I think “. “I had not anticipated the violence of criticism and I may have shown a little naivety, recognizes Marine Rosset. I was attacked every day on social networks, with messages wishing my disappearance ”. She explains that she “wants to be a ferment of peace” and insists that there are “Different ways of living your faith, of being Catholic”. “And fortunately”.