His reaction was eagerly awaited. Sandrine Rousseau asked Adrien Quatennens to resign on Tuesday afternoon after being sentenced to 4 months in prison for violence against his wife.
“A deputy convicted of domestic violence cannot sit down,” said the green deputy. “Out of respect for women, our struggles and the values we defend.”
“A Solemn Warning”
The deputy La France Insoumise had notably admitted last September to having slapped his wife in the context of their separation. Long seen as one of the party’s strongmen, he had immediately put himself in withdrawal from his functions within LFI and the National Assembly.
Adrien Quatennens was finally sentenced for “violence without disability committed by the spouse” between October and December 2021, as well as for “regular and malicious sending of messages” to his wife, by SMS and WhatsApp, between August and September 2022.
The elected representative of the North was also sentenced to 2,000 euros in damages to his wife. This court decision was made in the framework of a preliminary guilty plea, a fast-track procedure to try perpetrators of crimes who admit to the facts.
His lawyer, Jade Dousselin, sees it as “a solemn warning” to “a man we know will not return to justice.”
“Nobody” considers his “return” as “impossible”
Inside Nupes, only Sandrine Rousseau and environmental senator Mélanie Vogel have reacted so far. LFI MPs, for their part, remained silent as the party is split over whether or not to welcome Adrien Quatennens to the National Assembly.
“Nobody” within the parliamentary group considers that a “return is impossible”, Manuel Bompard had assured this Monday about France Inter.
The return of Adrien Quatennens, in the pipes at the end of the fall, had already been seriously compromised on November 23. Her wife had denounced to AFP “anger”, “crisis” and “physical and moral violence” on her part for “several years”, refuting any “context of mutual aggression”, new accusations that her husband had ” absolutely denied.”
Source: BFM TV
