The Adrien Quatennens case continues to divide the left.
The rebellious deputy, who announced his return to the National Assembly despite his four-month suspension from the group, "lacks restraint", said his colleague François Ruffin on Thursday.
The LFI deputy from the North, sentenced on Tuesday to a four-month suspended prison sentence for domestic violence, gave two interviews in which he denounced a "media lynching" and announced his return to the hemicycle "probably from the month of January".
"The very day when we still have a conviction for domestic violence, reacting live in a major media, I find that it lacks restraint", declared Thursday François Ruffin on RTL.
#Quatennens case: "Reacting in a major media on the very day of the conviction lacks restraint", @Francois_Ruffin in #RTLMatin with @amandine_begot.
"It's up to the people to decide, in the end, if he has a future in politics or not" pic.twitter.com/gxQ0F55KjZ
– RTL France (@RTLFrance) December 15, 2022
He called for "a time for digestion" to ask himself what to do with this sanction for "yourself", "for society", "for politics".
Claiming to be "solidarity" with the decision of the LFI group of a "delisting" of four months, until April 13, he explained that he had defended on his side "a sabbatical year" which "would not have hurt anyone. “to” regain his senses “.
As for the rest, "it's up to the people to decide in the end if Adrien Quatennens ever has a future in politics or not".
“It is his freedom to be able to come or not”
For her part, the president of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot, was more measured.
Asked about Public Sénat, the rebellious elected official believes that "since Adrien Quatennens is no longer in our group for a period of four months, this leaves him the freedom both to defend himself as he sees fit and to return to the Assembly as he sees fit.
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"When Adrien Quatennens explains that his constituents are asking him to resume parliamentary work and that he himself wants to resume parliamentary work, from the moment that Adrien, for four months, is not in my group, it is his freedom to be able to come or not, ”she said.
While saying she "agrees" on the fact that this moment of violence "does not sum up a life", the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, who continues to demand her resignation, regretted for her part "a company of political whitewashing in the very moment when the verdict was made”.
"This time for political sanction is missing"
"Rehabilitation requires three stages: the sanction, which must also be political, the time of repair and then the time of rehabilitation", she explained on the set of LCI.
But there, “this time for political sanction and reparation is missing,” she lamented.
For his part, the secretary general of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, welcomed on BFMTV / RMC that the sanction had already been pronounced by the courts, calling for "all women who suffer domestic violence to be able to go before a judge as fast ".
However, he recalled, the rule in the PCF is that convictions for violence against women prohibit "presenting candidates for election" or "sitting in a group".