2023-11-19 14:03:00
Conner Rousseau presents his resignation: “A serious error of which I am ashamed”
“Obviously I was angry with him,” reacted Conner Rousseau’s mother on Sunday, speaking of “a mistake” on the part of her son. She is aware that he is expected to behave in an exemplary manner, “24 hours a day”, due to his role as a politician. But she did not appreciate the criticism that came following the affair broke out. “When I hear the co-president of Groen (Nadia Naji, editor’s note) compare Conner’s statements to the death of a child hit by a car… I find her reaction worse than my son’s words,” said Christel Geerts, insisting his family knows what it’s like to lose a loved one in a road accident.
On October 6, following Conner Rousseau apologized for his racist remarks, made while drunk, Nadia Naji criticized the socialist’s behavior. She accused him, among other things, of using the state of intoxication as “extenuating circumstances”. “I can hope that his statements were not intentional. A drunk driver rushing into someone is not necessarily intentional either. But the result is the same,” compared the Flemish ecologist.
For Christel Geerts, if Conner Rousseau was drunk that famous September evening, it was because of an illness that had been following him for many months. On the VRT set, she stressed that her son had experienced “a very difficult year”, among other things marked by a coming-out somewhat forced by the rumors surrounding him. “For me, that drunken night and the story of his coming out, it’s a whole thing. He wasn’t ready to talk regarding that, and something like that shakes you up,” he said. expressed Christel Geerts.
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