“You realized that I was raining”: the storms cause a water leak in the midst of a debate in the National Assembly

If the deputies discussed this Wednesday, June 25, the war between Iran and Israel, a completely different news invited to the hemicycle for a few minutes on Wednesday. That of heavy rains and violent thunderstorms that touched France at night, before spreading at night.

The assembly also took the water. At the end of the opening speech of this session dedicated to the near and middle Middle East, Prime Minister François Bayrou looked up, before heading to the vice president of the National Assembly, Roland Lescure: “Did you realize that I was raining?”

“They had told me that the hemicycle was waterproof”

Answer of the interested party: “I just saw him, Mr. Prime Minister. They had told me that the hemicycle was waterproof, but obviously …”

This member of Renaissance and former delegate of ministers in charge of the industry announced a suspension of the session “while firefighters come to evaluate all this.” Before explaining during recovery, about fifteen minutes later:

“It is an incident of obviously to the torrential rains that fell in Paris. We had a small leak there, which resulted in the installation of absorbent carpets, which will prevent them from reproducing.”

Other affected assembly rooms?

Specifying that a carpet had also put itself in its place at the gallery of the various speakers, Roland Lescure concluded with humor: “Thank you for having cleaned the plaster, if I can say, Mr. Prime Minister.”

Obviously, the hemicycle is not the only part of the Bourbon Palace that has been affected. “The Buvette’s roof plates” of the Assembly “have risen,” said journalist Hugo Couturier, who encourages the “Hugoauperchoir” channel of Twitch, which supports the photos.

In terms of “the Conference Chamber, the canopy is damaged,” also told Deputy Alexis Corbière, former-Nonsoumis who is now part of the ecological group in the Assembly.

After the violent thunderstorms last night, two people died, a 12-year-old boy in Tarn-Et-Ggaronne and a man in Mayenne, according to the latest civil security evaluation. In addition, four people are in absolute emergency and 13 people in relative emergency. In addition, 100,000 homes are deprived of electricity this Thursday morning.