Quatennens case: the Renaissance group wants to make ineligible those convicted of domestic violence

After several months of absence, Adrien Quatennens is back in the National Assembly. The rebellious elected official, sentenced on December 13 to a suspended four-month prison sentence for having slapped his wife, remains excluded from the La France insoumise group until mid-April. He therefore returned to the Bourbon Palace on Wednesday as a non-registered deputy. A return that immediately led to a response from the majority. The Renaissance group has announced the filing of a bill aimed at making ineligible those convicted of domestic violence.

Aurore Bergé sounds the charge against Adrien Quatennens

The political response was quick. The president of the Renaissance group Aurore Bergé immediately sounded the charge against Adrien Quatennens. “This return cannot be ignored. There is nothing natural, nothing normal. Today we are tabling a bill to create an additional penalty of ineligibility for those who have been convicted of acts of domestic violence or domestic violence,” she said.

Extend a sentence of ineligibility

This text aims to extend the law which already provides for a penalty of ineligibility for certain offences, in particular violence, but only those resulting in a work interruption of more than eight days. However, this was not the case in the Quatennens case. It is therefore necessary to expand this system, according to the president of the Law Commission at the National Assembly, Sacha Houlié. “We have drawn the consequences of a legal vacuum. We noted this during the conviction of Adrien Quatennens who limited himself to noting that there was no mandatory additional sentence for violence committed by elected not having resulted in an ITT of less than eight days”, he specified.

This bill should be debated at the beginning of March. If it were adopted, it would not change the situation of Adrien Quatennens since his conviction was pronounced before the possible adoption of this text.