The controversy within the controversy. After judging this Friday morning that a slap was not “the same as a man who hits his wife every day”, Manuel Bompard was strongly criticized by the majority. The left also scolded him, five days after Adrien Quatennens admitted to slapping his wife.
“I never said, nor did I think that a slap was not serious. It is a serious and unacceptable fact and I remembered it this morning in my statements,” advances the deputy La France insoumise in a text published on Twitter this Friday, denouncing a “bad controversy” .
“I do not minimize”
The chosen one close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon was severely reprimanded after statements made a few hours earlier on CNEWS.
“Adrien Quatennens acknowledged (the facts) and said they were not acceptable. So I don’t minimize them. Then I try to make sense of things. A slap is never acceptable, but a slap is not the same as a man hitting his wife every day“He explained then.
In LCI, the deputy of the EELV, Sandrine Rousseau, thus recalled that “slapping your spouse (was) a crime.” “That’s what we have to move because all these words are words that minimize acts,” she said.
“A slap is not the same as a person accused of rape”
“Shut up now! Enough is enough!!”, Marlène Schiappa, former Secretary of State for Gender Equality, added in a tweet, judging that these statements “do considerable damage to the fight for the protection of women against the violence”.
In his demonstration this Friday, Manuel Bompard based himself on the case of Damián Abad.
“A slap in the face is not the same as a person who is accused of rape after having drugged the people who accuse him. In any case, those are the charges against him, ”she explained.
Damián Abad left the government last july, accused of rape by four women. He is currently being investigated for attempted rape.
“A slap will not be punished as severely as repeated blows”
Manuel Bompard is now trying to put out the storm, sticking to remember “fundamental principles of law” such as “proportionality” and the “individualization” of penalties, which allow “adapting responses and sanctions.”
“Therefore, a slap in the face will not be punished as severely as repeated blows by law, even years,” he justified on his Twitter account.
“I am aware that situations of domestic violence often begin with a slap. I never said it, and I never thought it. And those who say that are wrong and thus trivialize an act of domestic violence”, Manuel Bompard continues to defend.
Adrien Quatennens is now retired from “parliamentary work”. His resignation is not on the agenda, assured Mathilde Panot, the group’s president in the National Assembly.
Source: BFM TV
