He takes his "rant" . The deputy (La République en Marche, LREM), Bruno Questel attacked, on Friday, the political refugee status of Piotr Pavlenski. This 35-year-old protest artist, taken into police custody with his partner this weekend for "invasion of privacy" , claims the dissemination on the web of private intimate images of Benjamin Griveaux, who was behind his withdrawal from the municipal campaign in Paris.
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The Russian should be dismissed manu militari , according to the elected official of Eure. "Let’s fuck this guy outside!" , he got carried away Friday, on the set of LCP-National Assembly. “He is a political refugee, he came to ask for asylum. He behaves like a bastard and has no idea what suitable behavior can be in an enlightened society ”.
Sentenced in 2019
A political refugee in France since 2017, Piotr Pavlenski was convicted in 2019 for having set fire to a branch of the Banque de France in Paris two years earlier during an "artistic performance". "Nothing would justify" his retention in France, "once justice has passed," said Bruno Questel in Le Figaro .
"If we are to believe his motivations, the broadcasting of the videos would be the first episode of acts likely to destabilize the head of state and the institutions" , advances the elected official, convinced that these "vile" attacks of the private life is akin to "the beginnings of a totalitarian regime" .
The president of the LREM deputies, Gilles Le Gendre, was more nuanced. "It is not up to us to decide" to send the Russian artist back to his country, he said on the set of the "Grand Jury RTL- Le Figaro -LCI ", preferring to wait " for justice to do its job ".