Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not participate in the summer school of La France unsubmitted in Toulouse. The leader of the movement, "currently in Mexico," announced in a Facebook message on Wednesday (August 21st) that he would visit former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on September 5th in Curitiba.
"It is a political and personal duty for me to go and tell him our support," he says, noting that "the Rogue are part of the global mobilization to secure Lula's freedom".
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also said that he "accepted the date of September 3 to receive in Buenos Aires the diploma of doctor honoris causa of UNLA, great Argentine university".
Gigantic scandal
"Under these conditions, currently in Mexico, I found it unreasonable to inflict three Atlantic crossings in such a short time, across so many time zones, to be able to participate in both the Summer Amphis of Toulouse and honor my appointments "in Brazil and Argentina, he concludes.
At the age of 73, Lula, president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, has been serving a sentence of 8 years and 10 months in prison since April 2018 for passive bribery and money laundering, and continues to claim his innocence.
He was sentenced in first instance in 2017 for receiving a seaside triplex from a construction company involved in a huge bribe scandal around the company Petrobras, revealed by the investigation anticorruption "Express wash".
In June, the investigation site The Intercept Brasil published exchanges that cast doubt on the impartiality of the prosecutors in charge of the Lula case and the judge who sentenced him in the first instance, Sergio Moro, the President's current Minister of Justice. far right Jair Bolsonaro.
"Good dialogues"
Jean-Luc Mélenchon began on July 12 a trip to South America to "relax" and "learn useful lessons" from the revival of the left on this continent. In Mexico, he gave seven lectures, went to the US-Mexico border in Tijuana to speak on the subject of migration, and was received by President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.
On his blog, August 13, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said he was "moved" by this visit, during which "AMLO" invited him "perseverance and courage".
Called to appear in September before the court of Bobigny after the eventful search at the headquarters of France rebellious in October, Jean-Luc Mélenchon considers himself victim of a "judicial persecution", perceived according to him in Mexico as "an example of more of this technique of political instrumentalization of the justice become the rule in South America ".
On Facebook on Wednesday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his "apologies to the people registered for (his) conference on" the era of the people "(scheduled for Friday night)." The concomitance "of the Amfis of Toulouse" with the university of EELV promise you good dialogue if you decide, "he notes as well.
The national secretary of EELV David Cormand must speak twice to the Amfis, while the LFI deputy François Ruffin is invited to a carte blanche at the Summer Days of the Greens.
With AFP