The leader LFI recalled on France 2, Saturday evening, that he did not want to meddle in the divorce of his number two, accused of having slapped his wife with whom he is in divorce procedure.
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Invited in the new France 2 program, “What a time!”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke, Saturday, September 24 in the evening, after the eddies aroused by his communication on the Adrien Quatennens affair, the deputy ( La France Insoumise, LFI) of the north accused of violence on its wife.
The leader LFI had praised In a message on Twitter , on September 18, the” dignity “and the” courage “of his lieutenant who got back with the party after admitting to having given a slap to his wife Céline Quatennens -with whom he is in the process of divorce-, who has placed a handrail.
“Everyone can do better, me too,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon to journalist Léa Salamé who asked him if he regretted his tweet. “But I don’t think that’s the problem,” he added. The former MP for Bouches-du-Rhône has followed up on his disapproval of seeing the handrails made public. “Céline Quatennens wanted neither a legal action, nor that that comes out,” he recalls.
“I will respect until the end his desire not to be involved in the debate that surrounds Adrien Quatennens today,” he adds. Because “if I had said a word too much, she could have told me” what are you getting involved? “”
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“Identify and graduate”
“I accept your judgment, I accept criticism,” also said Mélenchon, aware that his messages had provoked many critical reactions, including within the new ecological and social popular union (NUPPES) of which the LFI is part.
“A slap is not acceptable, no violence in the couple is acceptable,” he says. “But we all have a principle: we must identify and graduate”, he adds, taking up the arguments of the “rebellious” deputy of the Bouches-du-Rhône, Manuel Bompard, who declared, Friday, at the href=”https://www.cnews.fr/france/2022-09-23/manuel-Bompard-sur-laffairens-une-gifle-nest-Pas-egale-un-homme-qui-Bat” Target = ” _BLANK “REL =” Noopener “Title =” New window “> The antenna of CNews that” a slap is never acceptable, but it is not equal to a man who beats his wife all the days “.
“The slap was a year ago, there has not been any for a year, and we have to take into account the fact that he apologizes,” defended Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Saturday evening . “If you have no graduation, it is because you don’t understand anything about what is going on in this kind of situation,” he said. “It is true that there is a continuum in violence but there is also a graduation in the sorrows that we attribute to people,” he explains.
Adrien Quatennens must resign from his mandate as a deputy, after having withdrawn from the coordination of LFI? “My answer is no: that this divorce ends, that the judge pronounces. And I hope him come back in political fight,” said Mélenchon, praising an “extraordinarily brilliant young man” that “you cannot not forbid me to love “.