A firm that surprises on the benches on the left. Damien Abbot, accused by multiple women of rape and attempted rape, signed a Renaissance group bill to create a disqualification sentence for elected officials convicted of certain forms of violence.
“Indecent”, so judged the environmental deputy Sandrine Rousseau.
A bill targeting Adrien Quatennens
Following the return of Adrien Quatennens to the National Assembly on January 11, the patron saint of Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, had drawn up this bill with Sacha Houlié, president of the Legal Commission.
Its objective is to expand a provision of the criminal code, which already provides for a mandatory disqualification sentence for certain crimes, in particular violence resulting in total incapacity for work (ITT) for more than 8 days. But disability is by no means mandatory below this figure.
Among these crimes, the proposed law targets in particular violence against a spouse or a child under 15 years of age.
“All the deputies of the Renaissance have signed”
Enough to point directly to the deputy from the North sentenced to 4 month suspended sentence for domestic violence, then excluded from his parliamentary group until April 13. But also bother his own field with the signing of Damien Abad.
Evidence of embarrassment: the group refused to answer our questions.
“No, I’m not very excited to see his name on this document, but all the deputies of the group have signed it, so it’s normal that he can do it too,” explains a group executive to BFMTV.com. .
Always related to the presidential group, the deputy who denies all the facts of which he is accused had been very discreet since his return to the National Assembly last July.
“I’m surprised”
“I have never been convicted of domestic violence. I don’t see where the problem is. I am shocked by this reaction (that of Sandrine Rousseau, editor’s note),” Damien Abad replies to us.
Elisabeth Borne’s former Minister of Solidarity became the president of the France-Lebanon friendship group at the Palais-Bourbon last December.
During the last legislative elections, Renaissance had invested Jérôme Peyrat. Candidate in the Dordogne, this framework of the majority had however been sentenced in 2020 for violence against a former partner. Under pressure and after the words of Stanislas Guérini, then head of the party who had called him an “honest man” and then backtracked, he finally withdrew his candidacy.
Source: BFM TV
