Under pressure, Adrien Quatennens breaks the silence.
Questioned by "a handrail" filed by his wife for episodes of violence, the LFI deputy from the North wanted to give his version of the facts this Sunday morning in a press release.
"I don't want the movement I represent to bear these pressures, nor let infamous speculation about me persist"
, he explained, while denouncing
"the act of political malice consisting in leaking into the presses the contents of a handrail”.
“I therefore make the difficult and costly choice to speak out transparently about the situation in the hope that we can find the path to appeasement in our family and in public opinion
,” he wrote.
Adrien Quatennens first acknowledged that his wife's handrail was
"deposited in the particular context of the tensions"
of their future divorce.
If he claims not to know its “
content
”, the Insoumis affirms that his wife
“made it for the sole purpose of leaving a trace of (their) altercations in the event of deterioration of the climate”
.
“She does not intend that there may be legal consequences or that this may be of interest to the media,”
he assures us.
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Adrien Quatennens targeted by a handrail after an argument with his wife
“Context of extreme tension”
Adrien Quatennens thus detailed the episodes of violence that Céline Quatennens could blame him for.
Among them:
"a slap"
, given
"in a context of extreme tension and mutual aggressiveness"
.
“I gave it away when it didn't look like me and it never happened again.
I deeply regretted this gesture and I then apologized a lot, ”
he promises.
The member of the North, often considered as
“the right arm”
or the
“number 2”
of Jean-Luc Mélenchon says however to draw
“the political consequences” from
it .
He announces that he will
“step back”
from his function as
“coordinator of La France Insoumise”
– the highest internal position –
“to protect the movement, its activists and all those who rely a lot on me”
.
“I could hunker down, minimize the facts and wait for the storm to pass.
But because I am politically responsible, and I want to set an example to which I want to assign myself and which has always been my line of conduct, ”
he says.
on Twitter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon commented on the facts in his own way: “Police malice, media voyeurism, social networks have invited themselves into the conflicting divorce of Adrien and Céline Quatennens.
Adrien decides to take it all on himself.
I salute his dignity and his courage.
I tell him my confidence and my affection”.
Finally, Adrien Quatennens asked that the
couple 's
"right to privacy"
"be respected"
to record
"a divorce"
that they want
"amicably".
