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The admission by Adrien Quatennens, one of the best known deputies of the leftist France Insoumise (LFI), that he punched his wife, from whom he is divorcing, in the face, has provoked a controversy among leaders of the left about the need to withdraw from public activity.
The MP has announced that he is stepping down from his role as LFI coordinator to protect the movement and its militants.
LFI MEP Manon Aubry asked this Monday on France Info radio station that Justice open an investigation into the case of the one who has been until now the “number two” of LFI.
The environmentalist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, (LFI is associated with her party in the left-wing coalition NUPES) demanded Quatennens to withdraw from all political activity and also asked her party to sanction him.
Claims that contrast with the position of the “number one” of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who in his first public statement on the matter charged against the policemen, the media, and the social networks that leaked the facts.
Mélenchon rectified in part later, after being criticized for those words. He pointed out that his “affection for him does not mean that he is indifferent towards Céline” and that “a slap is unacceptable in all cases.”
