“Can we consider a flaw to characterize a man or can it sum it up?” Adrien Quatennens asked Wednesday night on BFMTV.
The day before, the representative from the North was sentenced to four months in prison for “violence” against his wife, Céline Quatennens. However, he considered that he could not be considered an “aggressor”.
“I am not an aggressor because I recognized a slap […] I always regret it,” he said.
Not a “wife-beating man”
According to him, “violence has never characterized this relationship” and that a distinction must be made between a single slap – the only physical violence that he has accepted in court – and repeated violence.
“If I had been a man who beat his wife, we would not be in the same proportions,” added the deputy suspended for a period of four months from the group of LFI deputies.
She explained: “If the feminist struggle, which I still believe in today, is right and it’s aimed at me, then I think it’s wrong.”
Regarding his sentence pronounced by the court in Lille on Tuesday in appearance after admission of guilty (CRPC or “guilty plea”), Adrien Quatennens reacted: “It is a severe sentence, but I chose to accept it.”
Source: BFM TV
