Gérard Darmanin announces Direction of defamation complaint against Adrien Quatennens

sentenced Tuesday to four months suspended prison sentence for “violence” on his wife, the deputy LFI estimated in an interview with “La Voix du Nord” to be a victim of a “political” intended to “shoot him down “, indirectly questioning the Minister of the Interior.

MO12345LEMONDE with AFP

Gérald Darmanin “decided to file a defamation complaint” against Adrien Quatennens. He reacts to the remarks of the deputy La France Insoumise (LFI) questioning the Ministry of the Interior in his political fall, according to information from the France-Presse (AFP) confirmed to the world on Wednesday December 14.

In an interview with La Voix du Nord, Adrien Quatennens, sentenced Tuesday to four months suspended prison sentence in particular for” violence “committed against his wife, believes that he was a “political” victim intended to “shoot down”. “Several concordant sources tell me that it has been directly orchestrated since the Ministry of the Interior. I am unable to assert it myself today,” he said on Tuesday.

“What is some, however, is that it is fast, effective and very selective. All that is borne against me in the procedure has been the subject of leaks,” said Still the north elected official.

“slanderous words”

In the evening, the Minister of the Interior had informed AFP, by those around him, that he had “decided to file a defamation complaint following the slanderous comments of Adrien Quatennens”.

Since then, in the paper version of La Voix du Nord, broadcast on Wednesday, the sentence questioning the Ministry of the Interior has disappeared, but it is still in the version posted on Tuesday evening. “It is a question of space, as for each interview. We have selected what seemed to us the most important for the paper version to hold on two pages. It is not a request from Mr. Quatennens,” said to The France-Presse the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Patrick Jankielewicz.

“The Minister of the Interior does not distribute the courts of justice, which he does not have, moreover, to all French newspapers,” said Darmanin on France 2, Specifying that he would file a complaint “today”. “If Adrien Quatennens has evidence, that he publishes them,” replied Gérald Darmanin, re -elected in June deputy for a constituency close to that of the “rebellious”.

In mid-September, the chained duck revealed that the wife of the Northern deputy had placed a current hand for violence exerted by her husband, with whom she is in the process of divorce. The elected official had then set back from his party.

Tuesday, after his conviction, Mr. Quatennens excluded to resign from his post of deputy, considering being victim of a “media lynching”.

/Media reports cited above.