Céline Quatennens accuses this time her husband of harassment by SMS. This new handbook was filed two days before the hearing on Monday of the LFI deputy as part of an investigation into domestic violence.
Céline Quatennens went to a police station in Lille on September 24 to file a new handbook against her husband, LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens, told the Parisian the latter’s lawyer, confirming information from Franceinfo.
This time, the facts do not relate to acts of violence but to acts of harassment by SMS. According to Franceinfo, Céline Quatennens thus reported to the police that, since the initial events, her husband had been sending her text messages in large numbers. In a press release, the lawyer of the deputy LFI, Maître Dousselin tries to minimize the facts: “This new handbook is limited to evoking text messages sent by my client in the context of their separation and which have been confirmed to contain no message of a malicious or threatening nature.“, she says.
This handrail was filed six days after the deputy from the North published his press release in which he admitted having notably slapped his wife. And two days before his hearing by the police on Monday.
Quatennens was auditioned on Monday
Adrien Quatennens was indeed heard Monday at the Lille police station, as part of the investigation for domestic violence targeting him after a first handrail filed by his wife, said a source familiar with the matter on Saturday. The northern deputy was heard in the context of a free hearing, said this source, confirming information from the JDD .
The Lille prosecutor’s office had indicated on September 19 that it had opened an investigation after the handrail filed against the deputy by his wife, as part of his “proactive criminal policy for the treatment of domestic violence“. In a press release on September 13, after the revelation of this handrail by The chained DuckCéline and Adrien Quatennens said they had learned “through lawyersthat the prosecution had taken up the facts.
Adrien Quatennens immediately withdrew from his function as coordinator of La France Insoumise, acknowledging violence against his wife in a press release posted on Twitter. In particular, he admitted to havinggave a slap“, there is “a year», «in a context of extreme tension and mutual aggressiveness“, claiming to have”deeply regret this gesture“. Asked, neither the Lille prosecutor’s office nor the deputy’s lawyer reacted immediately.
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The case fueled a strong controversy, even within LFI itself. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the deputy Manuel Bompard have drawn the anger in particular from feminist circles for positions accused of relativizing domestic violence, which they have both defended.
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