National Rally deputy for Moselle Laurent Jacobelli indicted for defamation. Accused of insulting his Renaissance counterpart Belkhir Belhaddad in October.

In a video, filmed in October, showed the RN deputy insulting the Renaissance deputy, calling him “scum” The RN deputy was indicted by an investigating judge on Friday after “a classic hearing,” he said. “We gave, with my lawyer, our version of the facts, we will surely send additional conclusions, and then either it will be closed, or it will go further,’ continued Jacobelli.