Sentenced for violence against his ex-girlfriend, Adrien Quatennens reinstated in the LFI group

“ There was a vote. The decision is to reinstate Adrien Quatennens “Said the deputy of La France insoumise (LFI), Alma Dufour. Sentenced in December to a four-month suspended prison sentence for “violence” against his wife, Adrien Quatennens was suspended on December 13 for a period of four months from the group of deputies of LFI, the most important left-wing party in the Assembly. , until April 13.

The deputy had ruled out resigning from his mandate as a deputy, denouncing a “ media lynching ». The LFI group, which had conditioned its return on the follow-up of an internship of accountability with feminist associations, ” considers that the conditions for the reinstatement of Adrien Quatennens have been met “, According to a press release.

Return to the National Assembly from mid-January

He also claimed “ regret the media expressions he had following his conviction ” And “ acknowledges that some of his remarks had the effect, without his intention, of relativizing the seriousness of the facts and reversing the guilt between the perpetrator and the victim of violence “, continues the group.

Adrien Quatennens made his return to the National Assembly in mid-January, as a non-registered. Partners of the left-wing coalition Nupes (composed, in addition to LFI, of ecologists, communists and socialists) considered that he should be definitively excluded from La France insoumise. ” The investigation concluded what I had recognized: a slap given in the context of an argument, more than a year ago and never reproduced, and the sending of too many romantic text messages following a misunderstood divorce announcement “, said Adrien Quatennens.

The Socialist Party condemns this reinstatement

This reintegration is criticized by several partners of Nupes, the left-wing coalition. Among the socialists, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, internal opponent of the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, denounced “ shame of such a decision, just like the opposition current Refondations of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, which intends to make this subject a factor of fracture with the left-wing coalition.

In a press release, the PS considers that the deputy from the North “ can no longer be a member of the Nupes instances “. “ The decision of the parliamentary group of La France insoumise to reinstate Adrien Quatennens, when he admitted his guilt in acts of violence against his spouse, is both unacceptable and incompatible with the values ​​defended and carried by Nupes “, writes the PS in its press release.

Among environmentalists, the leader of the group in the National Assembly Cyrielle Chatelain also felt that Adrien Quatennens could not “ not return to the heart of the intergroup » Nudes.

Several elected environmentalists had also left the hemicycle in February during the first speech of the deputy since his conviction. His speech also sparked boos and slaps from the desks in the ranks of the majority. The leader of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé also tried, in vain, in March to pass a bill which intended to impose a penalty of ineligibility on more perpetrators of violence, in particular domestic or intra-family.

(With AFP)

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