“This case is not over” and “did not give all his juice“, declared Alexis Corbière, deputy La France insoumise (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis, Thursday September 8 on franceinfo. A few hours earlier, the police custody of Jean-Christophe Lagarde within the framework of the investigation into the false accusations against the couple of deputies of La France insoumise has been lifted. All this “shows the violence that can exist in political debate“, was indignant the chosen one.
At this stage, no charges have been brought against the President of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI). “We’ll see what’s held against him.“, comments Alexis Corbière, who still has questions, after the publication of an article on the Point website, at the origin of this affair.
“The one who was the engine of all this is a man who was an employee of the town hall of Drancy [Jean-Christophe Lagarde est maire-adjoint]. I could be wrong, but then it would be a lot of coincidences“, he adds. In this case, Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido filed a complaint against X for forgery and use of forgery and identity theft.
They also filed a complaint against the journalist who wrote the article that started it all, Aziz Zemouri, and the weekly Le Point, which published it on its website. This article unduly accused the couple of having exploited an undocumented cleaning lady, which the two elected officials had immediately denied. It had been withdrawn the next day and the weekly had admitted in an address to readers that it had “revealed false” and “lying“.
Article @Point : EVERYTHING IS FALSE.
We instruct our lawyer to file a complaint. pic.twitter.com/QFb7Gwjfg8— Raquel Garrido (@RaquelGarridoFr) June 22, 2022
“What interests me is to know what is the circuit that leads to a totally false article appearing in a weekly that wants to be a big weekly.“, explains Alexis Corbière. “I do not reduce myself only to the small manipulation of an abused journalist”he adds
“How can we be so deceived? What are the mechanisms also internal to this journal that make an article, which is easily removable, can be published?“, he insists again. For him, this case shows “the levity of certain newspapers which specialize so much in the attack on La France insoumise that they come to publish without checking a grossly false article, no doubt to help a political opponent“.