Adrien Quatennens breaks the silence.
Sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence for domestic violence against his future-ex-wife, the LFI deputy from the North spoke again in an interview with
La Voix du Nord
, published on Tuesday evening.
“The investigation concluded what I had recognized: a slap given in the context of an argument, more than a year ago and never reproduced, and the sending of too many romantic text messages following a misunderstood divorce announcement. “
, he says.
Reassembled, the Insoumis claims to have
"silently endured an unprecedented media lynching on the part of people who were not behind the closed doors of a couple's story and who know nothing about the file".
“Already heavy penalty”
“I simply discovered at 32 that in France, when you kneel down, recognize a fault and accept its sanction, the relentlessness does not stop: it redoubles even in your own camp. . In the same way, I find it disturbing that the most severe towards me are the same ones who unconditionally protect politicians who deny facts so much more serious than those for which I have been reproached. The message sent has the merit of clarity: deny! “
, he castigates.
Adrien Quatennens does not intend to put his mandate as a deputy back into play, contrary to what a large part of Nupes is claiming.
"Resigning after being convicted for an act that I recognized would set a dangerous precedent and open the door to all political manipulations of private life
," he said.
Especially since, according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon's ex-dauphin, his voters in the 1st district of the North
"show him their impatience to see this whole story end and to see (him) return to the Assembly to honor the mandate which they (him) entrusted"
.
"So that's what I'm going to do
," he said.
After the court conviction, his group nevertheless acted
"a radiation"
of four months of the deputy.
"It's fast, efficient and very selective"
“The sanction against me is already heavy and unprecedented: I was coordinator and therefore number 2 of La France Insoumise. I'm not anymore. I was its main spokesperson. I'm not anymore. I was ill then withdrawn from my parliamentary activity for more than three months of an incessant media lynching. I recognized a fault and I was sanctioned by justice for this one. Isn't that enough?”
, he asks.
Adding:
“I paid quite dearly on all counts.
I won't give in"
L'Insoumis also believes that this
"lynching"
is
"obviously political"
.
“The opportunity was too good to shoot the main spokesperson and coordinator of LFI.
Several concordant sources tell me that this was directly orchestrated from the Ministry of the Interior.
I am not in a position to affirm it myself today.
What is certain, however, is that it is fast, efficient and very selective
, ”he implies.
