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Jean-Luc Mélenchon will appear in court on Thursday 19 September and tomorrow. The insubordinate leader of France (LFI) appeared in correctional court along with five of his relatives following the incidents that marked the search of the headquarters of their party in October 2018.
It is the trial of a big anger which opens this Thursday, September 18th, in front of the court of Bobigny. While the headquarters of LFI is raided, October 16, 2018, and the police prevent him from entering, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is carried away. " The Republic is me, " he smiles in the face of the charmed agent to protect the door. The images of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's fake or real fury have been looping on social networks and television screens. The journalists had been invited by the movement.
For these facts, Jean-Luc Mélenchon faces up to ten years in prison. Excessive, judge the rebellious who denounce a political instrumentalization of justice. In addition to the gravity of the charges ("acts of intimidation against the judicial authority, rebellion and provocation") and the penalties incurred, they criticize the importance of the device deployed that morning. Eleven places were searched at the same time, all over France: the headquarters of LFI, therefore, but also the Parisian home of the insubordinate leader and those of his relatives.
All this proves, according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, that he is the victim of a " political trial ", like Lula in Brazil. At a press conference last Thursday at the House of Latin America in Paris, he explained that in France, the power sought to muzzle any form of opposition, whether "vests" "unions" or policies. And to insist: " It's about trying to destroy us. It's politics from A to Z. (...) I'm not afraid. You can put me in prison, make me ineligible. I am not afraid. "
The clash strategy
Since his return to France, after two months in Latin America to heal his wounds, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is fighting: publication of a forum with 200 personalities denouncing the political instrumentalization of justice; interview at BFM and JDD ; Exit of a book ... The leader of LFI does not miss any opportunity to say all the evil that he thinks of the French magistrates. So much so that the Judicial Union and the Union of Magistrates reacted earlier this week to recall that " politicians are justiciable like the others ". So will Jean-Luc Mélenchon be so virulent on Thursday in the courtroom? That's the big question ...
This strategy works, in any case, with its faithful who defend their leader, like Boris Petrov that RFI met at the Feast of Humanity last Saturday. This rebellious activist is sure, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the subject of a political trial, as Lula in Brazil. " Over two or three hours of surgery, he lost his nerves for a minute, like others. This is not liable to criminal prosecution. It is unacceptable that we pursue it for that . "
On the other hand, with the voters, the case of the searches had a disastrous effect, as evidenced by the disastrous score of the Insoumis with the Europeans: hardly 6.3% of the voices.
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