Sophia Chikirou defends her honor and that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

After being heard by the police investigating the unsubstantiated French candidate's accounts, the Mediascop leader answered BFMTV's questions, rejecting any "extra billing" during the 2017 presidential campaign.

Neither extra-billing, personal enrichment nor misappropriation of public funds: the former director of communications of Jean-Luc Mélenchon Sophia Chikirou on Tuesday refuted the suspicions raised in the context of the presidential campaign of the unsubdued candidate, the day after his hearing by the police.

"No personal enrichment"

"There was no overbilling, Mediascop (company Sophia Chikirou author of advice for the campaign) has not overcharged, there is no personal enrichment, there has not been embezzlement of public funds, " hammered Sophia Chikirou on the set of BFMTV .

"Jean-Luc Mélenchon's campaign was the least expensive of the first five candidates," she added.

Sophia Chikirou: "There was no extra billing" in Jean-Luc Mélenchon's campaign pic.twitter.com/NM7uKRYVWC

Mediascop company at the heart of the investigation

The head of the consulting company Mediascop is suspected of having "overcharged" her benefits with candidate Mélenchon.

A preliminary investigation by the Paris public prosecutor's office was opened, in particular after a report of "over-billing" by the Campaign Accounts Commission (CNCCFP).

"Misogynist attacks" and "media lynching"

"I suffered attacks that I would call misogynistic, " said Sophia Chikirou on BFMTV , citing names of male journalists.

Sophia Chikirou: "Since a few weeks, I suffered attacks that I would call misogynist" pic.twitter.com/hXix2rY8A6

Regarding the clash of arms between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the press, the insurgent leader of France's leader denounced a "media lynching of unheard-of violence" and demanded that "everyone calm down" .

Sophia Chikirou's warning to "all those people who try to reach me by private life, by insults, by accusations that do not exist in the file, I tell them that I will not lower my eyes. To make them fall, it will be necessary to break them. It's not my character. "

Sophia Chikirou: "To make me look down, it will be necessary to kill them" pic.twitter.com/xELkOoQiwF