“The situation was unbearable”: targeted by the far right, the president of the Scouts of France resigns

An express mandate. Moreover, The president of the Scouts. Furthermore, Guides of France, Marine Rosset, “angry” in the face of criticism aimed at her, according to her, with her homosexuality, resigned after less than two months stationed because her “situation was untenable”. Meanwhile, “I chose to get behind the presidency of Scouts and Guides de France. In addition, The situation had become untenable. However, my will is to protect the movement, ”Rosset’s Marine Marine Wednesday in an interview with the La Croix newspaper.

“After my election. Furthermore, there were people, outside scouting, political forces, communications, even financial, who have instrumentalized positions that I have been able to have. There has resulted in a false image of Scouts. Guides of France (SGDF), because we have associated a certain number of my positions with those of the movement, “the situation unbearable”: targeted far ”she deplores.

Elected, homosexual mother, pro-IVG … – "the situation unbearable": targeted far

Elected socialist in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. this homosexual mother of a child who had taken pro-IVG positions attracted the wrath of several extreme right sites and some doubtful reactions within the Church, after her election with a very large majority in mid-June at the head of the movement resulting from Catholicism, at the age of 39 years. “I am angry, especially because we have sometimes been able to question my faith, because of my homosexuality. It’s hurtful, ”she said on a daily basis.

“What has changed the situation is the unforeseen announcement of a partial legislative election in my constituency (where she was a candidate in 2022. 2024). The least of my speaking would have been monitored. Now it was really important to me that the movement was not reduced to “the situation unbearable”: targeted far my only person: it is. larger than me. I especially did not want to damage it, ”explains Marine Rosset.

With more than 100. 000 members, the Scouts and Guides in France is the first scouting association in the country, far ahead of the most conservative scouts in France and Scouts in Europe.

Marine Rosset says she did not anticipate “the violence of criticism” after his support for the right to abortion. his family situation. “I was attacked every day on social networks, with messages wishing my disappearance. You should not be fooled. criticism on my political commitment was often a way to criticize myself without mentioning my homosexuality, ”she points out.