TMC's daily broadcast unveiled on Wednesday all of its images shot during the search at the insubordinate headquarters of France in October 2018, a week before the appearance of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and five leaders of the movement before the court of Bobigny.
"Great satisfaction" for LFI
Several insubordinate leaders, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon, seeing in these proceedings for "acts of intimidation towards the judicial authority, rebellion and provocation", a "political trial", have repeatedly called for access to all the images of the show. Wednesday at 18:00, Daily has posted these images, without editing. Taken in its entirety, the sequence alternates moments of calm and dialogue with scenes of extreme tension and jostling when the Rogue attempt to gain access to the part of the premises where the search takes place.
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- Daily (@Qofficiel) September 11, 2019The search was conducted as part of preliminary investigations into suspicions of fictitious jobs of European Parliament assistants and the accounts of the 2017 campaign. "It is a great satisfaction for us, these images show such things that they took place, that attests that the general atmosphere is not the one that the few elements shown (until then by Quotidien ) suggested ", declared in a press conference held Wednesday evening the member Alexis Corbière, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who was not present.
"We did not hinder this search, it's a dialogue that took place," added Alexis Corbière, along with another LFI MP, Adrien Quattenens, at the conference at the party's headquarters.
"We must give them everything"
On the images, we see in particular the insubordant leader reformulate his reply "my person is sacred", pronounced during the search at his home earlier in the morning: "The police are not above the republican laws and especially above the person of the deputies, their person is sacred, "he said to the police, reproaching them for being" armed "and numerous, and demanding that the unsuspects can attend the search. We also see him launch his already well-known and very commented sentence in October: "The Republic is me".
In other sequences, Jean-Luc Mélenchon confides, more relaxed, to the journalists present and jokes with Insoumis. "We must give them everything, we must not oppose any resistance, we are honest people," proclaims Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the departure of the police, before addressing the prosecutor, with whom the dialogue was very tense during several minutes: "You are here at home, you are a citizen and even you are a prosecutor, and we respect that".
"There are members of the FN among them (the police, ed), should not be surprised that some are alive," then launches Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The lawyer of the unswerving leader, Mathieu Davy, said Wednesday evening "appalling that the prosecutor refused to send us this document", according to him "essential".