“
You will see that in the last week of the presidential campaign, we will have a serious incident, or a murder (...) It was
Merah in 2012
, it was the attack
last week on the Champs Élysées.
Do you remember all that?
Before we had
Grandpa Voise
, whom no one has ever heard of after.
All that is written in advance
”These words, made by Jean-Luc Mélenchon Sunday, June 6 on the set of“
Political questions
”, on France Inter, made a large part of the political class jump.
To read also: "Complotists", "shocking", "shameful": Mélenchon's remarks on the attacks indignant the political class
This is not the first time that the member for Bouches-du-Rhône has provoked the ire of a large part of the political class.
Since his defeat in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has many times surprised, annoyed or even outraged by his words.
Small chronology (not exhaustive).
April 23, 2017: Mélenchon refuses to admit defeat in the presidential election
“
We do not validate the score announced on the basis of polls. The results of the big cities are not yet known. I call for restraint and commentators for caution.
»On April 23, 2017, while he was in fourth position in the provisional results of the presidential election, behind Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and François Fillon, the leader of France Insoumise delivered a speech from his campaign HQ in which he refuses to recognize his defeat. "
The official results will be returned at midnight by the Ministry of the Interior, we will respect them,
" he said at the time.
A few hours later, he finally admitted defeat and gave no voting instructions for the second round.
After this exit, many in the political class will consider that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was "
bad player
".
September 23, 2017: "
This is the street that shot the Nazis
"
Saturday September 23, 2017, after a demonstration against the reform of the Labor Code, Jean-Luc Mélenchon responds to a sentence from Emmanuel Macron who believes that "
democracy is not the street".
"Mr. President, it remains for you to consult the history of France to learn that it is the street which killed the kings, it is the street which killed the Nazis (...),
it is the street always who carries the aspirations of the French people when they cannot make them heard otherwise,
”he says.
To read also: "The street killed the Nazis": Mélenchon arouses indignation
Words denounced immediately by the political class, starting with the government.
"
Unworthy to wear these colors when you mix Democrats and Republicans with Nazi muck."
His enemies are ... all the others
”, denounced Christophe Castaner, spokesperson for the government.
"
No complacency with regard to Mélenchon, its violence, its hazardous historical references
", had also tackled the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
October 16, 2018: "
The Republic is me
"
On October 16, 2018, a series of searches were carried out among executives of France Insoumise and at the headquarters of the movement.
After filming the visit of the police to his home, Jean-Luc Mélenchon intervenes in a particularly violent way, in front of the headquarters of France Insoumise, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
Filmed by the cameras of the Daily show, he arrives screaming in front of the premises, scandalized, asking that the door be broken down.
To read also: "You do not cut me!"
: in full search, Mélenchon calls to order one of his elected officials
Face to face with a police officer responsible for not letting anyone in during the search, Mélenchon reminds him by yelling: “
You don't have to prevent me from entering my room.
We are not thugs or bandits.
I am a parliamentarian (...) The Republic is me!
".
And to try, with his comrades, to break down the door to enter.
Images that have outraged even in its ranks.
October 17, 2018: the Insoumis leader mocks the southern accent of a journalist
The day after the searches carried out at his home and at the headquarters of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was questioned by a journalist from France 3 on this subject before the National Assembly.
"
What does that mean
," replied the member for Bouches-du-Rhône, mocking his southern accent.
And to add: "
You say anything.
Does anyone have a question formulated in French and more or less understandable?
Because me, your level exceeds me.
I don't understand you
”.
Read also: Embarrassed by a question, Mélenchon responds by mocking the accent of a journalist
An imitation that shocked many residents of his constituency, but also outraged a large part of the political class.
“
What does that mean Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
Well that means that if the singing accent of the south and the Mediterranean seems contemptible to you, you have nothing to do in Marseille
”, had also replied Renaud Muselier, LR president of the Provence-Alpes region. -Cote d'Azur.
November 10, 2019: Mélenchon walks with the CCIF
Sunday November 10, 2019, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and part of his troops marched in the streets of Paris for the "
March against Islamophobia
".
A demonstration co-organized by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) and the Collectif contre l'islamophobie en France (CCIF), an association close to the Muslim Brotherhood which has since been dissolved for having carried out "
consistently an Islamist propaganda campaign
", announced Gérald Darmanin at the end of 2020. This march, announced in a column published on
Liberation,
denounced the existence of “
freedom-killing laws
” against Muslims in France.
Read also: Mélenchon justifies his presence in the march against "Islamophobia"
The participation of the leader of France Insoumise in this event was not to everyone's taste, far from it. Many tenors of his movement had not participated in it. François Ruffin had preferred to "
play football
" and Adrien Quatennens had also "
kept a distance (...) for personal reasons
", not forgetting to specify that he did not assume his presence alongside "
People with whom
" he "
does not share most of the values
".
