The metamorphosis of François Ruffin

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CHRONIC. Elected under the banner of Mélenchon, the deputy defends the value of work and the France of the countryside. Like Macron, whom he crushes, he promotes a new “at the same time”.

By Christine Clerc

OHe doesn’t like free spirits, among the Insoumis. Until then, however, and despite François Ruffin’s frequent absences from LFI meetings, and even from the National Assembly, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his disciples tolerated, even encouraged, the so-called “Le Picard”. From 2016, the success of his documentary film Thanks boss ! – a charge against the Louis Vuitton company, which had earned him, in 2017, the César for best documentary film – had the young insolent spotted by the far-left presidential candidate.

Aged 42 at the time, Ruffin, who looked twenty years younger in jeans and a T-shirt, appealed to young people with his mixture of audacity and shyness, which sometimes made him stammer in front of the microphones, sometimes also let go of enormities like. ..

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