Adrien Quatennens is finally breaking his silence after weeks. The deputy was sentenced this Tuesday morning to 4 months in prison for domestic violence and “regular and malicious sending of messages” to his wife.
“In addition to the personal ordeal, I silently endured an unprecedented media lynching of people who were not behind closed doors of a couple’s story and who knew nothing of the file”, attacks the elected La France in the columns of the voice of the north.
“To those who want my head, beware”
Withdrawn from his functions within the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the National Assembly since last September, his group pronounced sanctions against him, a few hours after this judicial decision.
“This gesture (the slap, editor’s note) is not like me. I was very sorry, I recognized it even in front of our relatives, I immediately apologized and although it never happened again, I still regret it ”, she justifies. the same.
The one that many saw as a future presidential candidate in 2027 receives a 4-month “temporary radiation” from his group, offering him the possibility of sitting down again on April 13.
His return is also “conditional on his commitment to follow an accountability course on violence against women” with feminist associations.
“As for those who want my head, I simply say: be careful. Be careful with the treatment they reserve for me for a fault that I have recognized and for which I have accepted to be sanctioned”, advances Adrien Quatennens while members of the Nupes ask for his resignation, like Sandrine Rousseau.
“The investigation concluded what I had recognized”
“I know we wouldn’t be here if I had denied it like everyone else does. But I do not regret. Especially if it can usefully serve the cause of the fight against violence against women”, the elect also justifies. , addressed to Damián Abad, accused by 4 women of rape and attempted rape.
The deputy also returns to his wife’s accusations. Although the northerner admitted having slapped his wife, the latter spoke last November through her lawyer of “anger”, “crisis” and “physical and moral violence” on her part for “several years”, denying any “context of mutual aggressiveness”.
At the time, his wife’s words came at the worst moment as the 30-year-old was preparing for his political comeback.
“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 after a misunderstood divorce announcement,” the parliamentarian replies to Our colleagues.
“They offered me to sue my wife”
Adrien Quatennens severely reprimands his wife, accusing her of having “openly threatened” to “destroy ‘(her) political commitment'” due to the lack of response to “her demands” and of citing the “custodial conditions” of their daughter.
“They offered to denounce my wife. Despite what I myself suffered from it, I chose not to do it, because they are isolated events and I want to protect our son. It is urgent that all this stop ”, assures the rebel his lawyer, Jade Dousselin, had mentioned accusations “close to defamation” on BFMTV at the end of November.
However, his future return to the Palais-Bourbon will not be evident. The unrest in La France insoumise is likely to persist in a party that wants to commit to the fight against violence against women. The rebel deputy Clémentine Autain asked at the end of November that the movement be “fair and audible in this file”.
Source: BFM TV
