EDITORIAL
>> Jean-Luc Mélenchon was sentenced Monday to three months of suspended sentence and 8,000 euros fine for "act of intimidation, rebellion and provocation towards a magistrate". These are the judicial consequences of the stormy searches that took place in October 2018 at his home and the headquarters of La France unsubdued.
"Everyone remembers this almost embarrassing scene in which Jean-Luc Mélenchon screams that his person is sacred, that the Republic is him ... As expected, justice has mingled, and as he Predictably, Jean-Luc Mélenchon immediately denounced "a political trial" and "a judicial comedy to wither." What is good, with the leader of La France unsubdued, is that he never goes back to an opportunity to make an exaggeration, so he denounces "the judicial instrumentalization" by a power of Macron's orders, he says that, if he has been condemned, it is because 'the magistrates are threatened by the police, and they are afraid'.
Self-proclaimed 'official rebel'
So here it is self-proclaimed 'official rebel', even if these two terms are perfectly contradictory (we call it an oxymoron, in this French language that Jean-Luc Mélenchon appreciates so much). Here he is a victim among the victims of power, pursued by 'courts which judge with class ferocity', and who condemn him, as they punish the yellow vests, the little people. Yes, because with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, politics is never far away. He was at the center of a news item, he turned it into a political affair.
apparentement
Other politicians who had trouble with the law immediately started. And among them, Nicolas Bay, the number 3 of the National Rally which claimed the release of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Funnily similar, all the same, that this convergence of interest between the right of the right and the left of the left. This is also the second time that it happens in a few days: last Thursday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon applauded Marine Le Pen for its support for the demonstrators and congratulated her for her 'progress towards humanism'. Quite unexpected, all the same ...
>> Find the morning of the day of Matthieu Belliard in replay and podcast here
Officially, in France Insoumise, not a head exceeds, but the trouble begins to be felt. Because, beyond the excesses of the leader whose, finally, one could smile, is in fact a question of substance: when insulting the police, when one despises the magistrates, when one tramples With as much joy as some of the foundations of the Republic and our democracy, can we still have a chance to attract voters in large numbers? Is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in his rebel flight, not closing the moment when everyone around him thought they could one day come to power? "