“I regret the controversy that this ruling has caused.” Guest of BFM politique this Sunday, the LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, Manuel Bompard, returned to his statements on the Quatennens case, which caused controversy in the political class.
“I am not minimizing the facts (…), I try to make sense of things: a slap is never acceptable but a slap is not equal to a man who hits his wife every day and a slap is not equal to a person who is charged with rape after drugging the people who accuse him,” the elected official said, in an interview with CNews.
“On social networks I see extremely harsh exchanges and I know that it can rekindle the suffering of victims of domestic violence,” lamented Manuel Bompard on our antenna, who said he was “shocked” by the fact that his sentence had been “cut”. “.
“I do not relativize”
“A slap is unacceptable violence (…) I am not trivializing it. Did I say that a slap was not serious? ”, She questioned.
“I do not consider that a slap is not serious. I do not want this policy to give the impression that I am relativizing. I do not relativize”, he hammered, adding that he does not “minimise” the facts imputed against the deputy. Quatennens.
Manuel Bompard, however, maintained the need, according to him, for a “de facto graduation.” “To say that we must graduate is to say that we must be more effective in responding. Not all facts are created equal,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
