A self-proclaimed “pick-up artist” today warned he will take legal action against the EU if it tries to ban him from coming to Europe.
Daryush Valizadeh, who gives men advice on getting sex but is accused by critics of being “pro-rape”, made the threat after a London Labour MEP demanded Brussels ban him.
Mary Honeyball wrote to the European Commission, claiming the US blogger, known as Roosh V, should be barred for allegedly spreading “deplorable and violent” messages about women.
Valizadeh, 36, cancelled London events this month after protesters vowed to demonstrate. He caused outrage in a blog post in which he suggested rape should be legalised, although he claimed it was an “obviously satirical anti-rape article”. He said: “I absolutely deny her bogus allegations that I’m ‘pro-rape’, or that the February 6 meet-ups were about harming women. I intend to vigorously appeal any action against me that results from Honeyball’s complaints by using all available legal avenues in the European Union.”
Ms Honeyball said: “I’ve written to ask it to take action to prevent events like the one Roosh V sought to organise.”
The Commission has six weeks to respond or the women’s rights and gender equality committee, on which Ms Honeyball sits, can summon a commissioner to give a response at a hearing.
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