Mathilde Panot announces a support rally on Saturday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be present

“We decided to have a gathering on Saturday at 5 p.m. in Grabels [dans l’Hérault] in support of the mayor“, indicated the president of the La France insoumise (LFI) group at the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, during a press conference this Tuesday, September 26. The elected official, René Revol, told France Bleu Hérault that He was attacked while leaving a demonstration against police violence on Saturday afternoon in Montpellier. He filed a complaint on Monday.

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The mayor speaks of an attack “minor and major at the same time“. According to his account, two individuals attacked him and pinned him against a wall with both arms. His attackers told him: “Don’t worry, we know what we’re doing, we know who you are, you’re a friend of the Arabs, you lose nothing by waiting‘”, before leaving. The councilor adds that there were no blows and that he is not injured.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be present at the gathering

“I would like here, on behalf of my group, to reaffirm” to René Revol “all our support, and to reaffirm our determination to never lower our eyes in the face of this extreme right-wing violence“, adds Mathilde Panot. She indicates that “a large part of the parliamentary group will obviously be present for this gathering“. The leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, will participate, as well as around ten Insoumis deputies, including the coordinator of the movement, Manuel Bompard, specifies the LFI group to the National Assembly.

“Unfortunately“, this aggression is not”a first“, points out the leader of the LFI deputies. She recalls the case”Insoumis activists who had their house burned down, in Essonne and in the East of France [dans les Vosges]” and “Jean-Luc Mélenchon is regularly threatened with death“She also regrets.”a certain silence from the authorities around these attacks“.