Bobigny (AFP)
France's leader insubordinate Jean-Luc Mélenchon was sentenced Monday to three months in prison suspended by the criminal court of Bobigny for rebellion and provocation during the stormy search at the headquarters of his party in October 2018.
The judge has followed the requisitions of the prosecutor and Mr. Mélenchon will also pay a fine of 8,000 euros. The deputy Bastien Lachaud, the MEP Manuel Bompard, the president of the association "The Era of the People" Bernard Pignerol and Muriel Rozenfeld, the press secretary of the movement, are condemned to fines between 2,000 and 7,000 euros.
Only MP Alexis Corbière was released after the stormy search carried out on 16 October 2018 at the headquarters of LFI as part of two preliminary investigations of the Paris prosecutor's office: on the accounts of the 2017 presidential campaign and on the conditions of employment of Assistants of MEPs from insubordinate France - entrusted for a year to investigating judges.
In front of the television cameras, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had virulently opposed the search. He had then called his relatives to "break the door" to enter the premises where the search was in progress, claiming in particular: "The Republic is me". He was also seen shaking up a representative of the prosecution and a police officer who was trying to intervene.
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