The response was not long in coming.
Directly incriminated by Adrien Quatennens - who suggested that Beauvau would be involved in his conviction for domestic violence - Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday that he was going to take legal action without delay.
"The Minister of the Interior has decided to file a defamation complaint following (these) slanderous remarks"
, indicates to
Figaro
the entourage of the number three of the government.
A “political lynching”
In question, the recent accusations of the deputy Insoumis, according to whom the
"lynching"
which is currently targeting him would be
"obviously political".
“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 slipped in an interview with
La Voix du Nord
, after several months of silence.
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Sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to domestic violence against his future ex-wife, Adrien Quatennens also confirms that he does not intend to resign from his mandate as a deputy.
Determined to return to the benches of the National Assembly, where he has not sat since September, the former dolphin of Jean-Luc Mélenchon will however submit to the four-month “delisting” decided by the LFI group. before meeting his colleagues.