Like many elected Insoumis, Clémentine Autain was seized and frozen, Wednesday around noon, by the content of Céline Quatennens' press release.
The wife of the Insoumis deputy from the North Adrien Quatennens has indeed revealed, via his lawyer, to have been the victim of “physical and moral violence” from him for “several years”: “
It has been several years since I suffered his anger, his crises, physical and moral violence.
Over the past few years, I have wanted a divorce three times, each time under pressure I backed out
.
Facts much heavier, much more serious therefore, than a single slap recognized so far by the close lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mélenchon since the first revelations on this case of domestic violence, on September 18th.
“We must be fair and audible”
“
The discrepancy between the legal qualification made public yesterday and this press release by Céline Quatennens obviously concerns me
”, explains the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis to
Le Figaro
.
This November 22, in fact, was made public the summons of Adrien Quatennens to court, on December 13, for a “guilty plea”.
A simplified procedure offered to litigants who have committed minor offenses when they admit the alleged facts.
“
I hope that our group, in one way or another, can hear Céline Quatennens if she accepts it
”, indicates the deputy member of the LFI group in the Assembly.
"
Our decision regarding Adrien Quatennens must take into account her word and not just his.
We must be fair and audible.
»
So far, Adrien Quatennens has not set foot in Parliament.
His return was already a source of tension and at least questions in the group and beyond.
It is today very clearly called into question.
As an aside, an Insoumis deputy tells
Le Figaro
that these tensions have a direct relationship with their leader.
“
It pitches,
indicates this source
, because many fear or do not want to anger Jean-Luc Mélenchon
”.
Because in this case of violence, the triple presidential candidate immediately showed his support for his lieutenant.
A support too fast from the first revelations of the Duck chained in September, without a first word of support to the wife, who will be very reproached to him.
In
Sunday in politics
on France 3, October 9, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had a little later vigorously defended the return of Adrien Quatennens to the Assembly.
He also wished "
that the lynching would stop
" "
It is a repetition of political slaps that are given to him, from morning to evening, in all the media...
"
Autain had already distanced himself from the defense of Mélenchon
“He is not violent because he was violent once more than a year ago
,” added this close political friend of Adrien Quatennens.
Clémentine Autain, at that time, had distanced herself from the words of the leader of the Insoumis.
“
I do not agree with the way he takes this story which, in my opinion, deserves to try to be understood from the point of view of the fight that we are leading, that is to say the fight against violence against women”,
had very quickly retorted the deputy on BFMTV.
Another strong man of the movement, who had taken place following the withdrawal of Adrien Quatennens, the deputy of Marseilles Manuel Bompard, had registered in a line very close to that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"A slap is not equal to a man who beats his wife every day,"
he said at the end of September.
Since September 18, Adrien Quatennens has been withdrawn from his post as coordinator of La France insoumise, a key position in this movement.
In mid-September, the Lille prosecutor's office had opened a preliminary investigation as part of its "
proactive criminal policy for the treatment of domestic violence.
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