La France Insoumise has just confirmed the opening of an internal investigation targeting Taha Bouhafs.
The movement's "Committee against sexist and sexual violence" was seized on Saturday May 7 "
for alleged acts of sexual violence
" committed by the young activist from working-class neighborhoods, who has just given up on running in the 14th district of the Rhône. , in Venissieux.
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“
Given the urgency of the situation
, communicates LFI,
a procedure was initiated immediately (…)
.
In this context Taha Bouhafs was confronted with the accusations of which he was the subject Monday, May 9
”.
And given "
the seriousness of the supposed facts
", he was told that "
France Insoumise could be led not to invest it
".
This party press release confirmed information revealed by BFMTV a few minutes earlier.
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Mélenchon regretted Monday not having been able to comfort him
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, Taha Bouhafs himself announced his renunciation of being a candidate, arguing that he had been crushed by “
the system
”.
“
Keep fighting,
” he said in his statement.
For my part, I tried but I can't do it anymore.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the former Insoumis candidate who came third in the presidential election (21.95%), had very quickly denounced
"a pack that fought hard"
against Taha Bouhafs, with
"death threats and questioning daily public
.
He regretted, without mentioning the accusations against Taha Bouhafs,
"not having been able to comfort him as much as necessary"
.
Several media are currently investigating these facts.
At the heart of the criticism against Taha Bouhafs so far, his conviction at the end of 2021 to a fine of 1,500 euros for public insult because of origin, after having treated the police unionist Linda Kebab of "Arab service" - Taha Bouhafs has calls.
If he was, on May 1, 2018, the only one to film Alexandre Benalla raping a couple of demonstrators in Paris, he also aroused a lot of criticism, including on the left for his very controversial communitarian positions.
The national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, on the republican line of his presidential campaign, gave the coup de grace at the beginning of the week.
"I do not understand that LFI can present someone who has been convicted of racial insult"
, he declared Monday morning on France 2, asking the Insoumis "
to review this candidacy and create the conditions to win there against to En Marche and the National Front”
.
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