The Quatennens couple decided themselves to formalize information that had been buzzing in the Parisian editorial offices for several days.
A judicial investigation was recently opened for suspicion of "violence by spouse" by the parquet floor of Lille (North) after a handrail filed by the wife of the deputy La France insoumise, Adrien Quatennens.
With the particularity that the person concerned did not however wish any legal follow-up to this report made to a police department in the North during the month of September in a context of divorce.
“Following a dispute after announcing her desire to separate, Céline Quatennens filed a handrail, specifying to the police that she did not wish to file a complaint or that there be legal consequences for this handrail and that she demanded that the information is not found in the press, explained the Quatennens couple in a press release released on Tuesday.
We intend to protect our privacy and that of our family, ask for respect to find the path to appeasement.
An approach to “protect themselves in the event of a dispute surrounding their divorce”
Contacted, the public prosecutor of Lille, Carole Étienne, refused to comment "on this case" and did not wish to explain the reasons for the opening of the judicial inquiry either.
No information has also been revealed on the elements described by the wife of the elected official from the North in her daybook but, according to a senior official of whom one cannot suspect the slightest political sympathy for La France Insoumise, "it is perhaps a bit hasty to talk about domestic violence”.
According to the deputy's lawyer, quoted by Le Canard enchaîné, Céline Quatennens' handrail was intended "to protect themselves in the event of a dispute over their divorce".
In reality, if the justice system took action against the will of the person concerned, it was because of a new criminal policy regarding cases of domestic violence.
To fight against feminicides, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had announced, in an interview with Le Parisien, his wish to see "proscribed the handrails" in the treatment of this type of file and had instructed all police officer or gendarme who is aware of suspicions of domestic violence to report to the public prosecutor's office.
