VIDEO. Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes that Adrien Quatennens “is not violent because he was violent once”

For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Adrien Quatennens “must come back” in the National Assembly. Asked about France 3 in the program “Sunday in politics”, the leader of La France Insoumise wished, Sunday, October 9, the return of the deputy from the North in the hemicycle, and “stop the lynching that was done to him”. Adrien Quatennens retired from political life in mid-September after admitting violence against his wife, who has since filed a complaint. He has not served in Parliament since. “I understood that he was on sick leave”, added Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“Adrien Quatennens is one of the most brilliant elements who has imposed himself in the last period”assured the former presidential candidate, repeating his “affection” for the deputy from the North, as well as for his wife. He “is not violent because he was violent once, and that was over a year ago”continued Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “He never started this violence again”he insisted.

The leader of LFI also called for a “graduation of the sentences imposed on him”lamenting a “repetition of political slaps given to him from morning to night in all the media” during “three weeks of lynching” where “we took no account of his wife’s word, nor mine, by the way”.

Shortly afterwards, on BFMTV, questioned about these declarations, the leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, rose up against the “incredibility of this statement”. “You get to have a former presidential candidate, who got millions of votes on his name, say he’s renewing his affection for him. I don’t have affection for a man who hits his woman”, insisted Aurore Bergé.