Elected MP for the North at the age of 27 in 2017, an assiduous disciple who became Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s right-hand man to the point of appearing as his potential successor, Adrien Quatennens retired on Sunday, September 18, 2022 from his duties as coordinator of La France insoumise after having acknowledged several episodes of disputes with his partner, Céline Quatennens, with whom he is in divorce proceedings. In his press release, the number 2 of LFI acknowledged in particular that he had “slapped” his partner “in a context of extreme tension and mutual aggressiveness.” “Say when I don’t think so and it hasn’t happened to me again. I deeply regretted this gesture and later apologized very much, ”he assured in this text. Father of a three-year-old girl, Adrien Quatennens was born on May 23, 1990 in Lille and has been active since he was 15 years old. This rock lover, follower of Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine and drummer in his spare time, later became involved in associations to help the homeless and later joined the alter-globalisation NGO Attac. In 2012, seduced by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s “ecology, socialism, Republic” triptych, he supported the presidential candidate’s campaign and then joined the Left Party, a vanguard of the LFI, the following year. He won the 2017 legislative elections by beating LaREM executive Christophe Itier by a few dozen votes in Lille’s first constituency. He then revealed himself in the chamber with his speech in July 2017, on the ordinances on the Labor Code carried out by Minister Muriel Pénicaud: he had accused her of “premeditated murder of the Labor Code” and had launched “You say that the The problem with the Labor Code is its thickness. Do you think the directory is too thick? In this case, which pages should be torn out? Later, Adrien Quatennens benefited from public praise from Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He reported that in his interviews, the young deputy encouraged him to adopt a strategy of silent force: to be radical and implacable, yes, but without exuberance or dispersion.He was then appointed in 2019 to the coordination of La France insoumise to raise the movement of internal crises and the failure of the European elections Ten years later, his firm ascent, marked by an easy re-election in the legislative elections last June, ended abruptly with these accusations of violence domestic. The Lille prosecutor’s office opened an investigation following the complaint filed against the LFI deputy by his wife, as part of its “proactive criminal policy for the treatment of domestic violence”.
Source: BFM TV
