"There are times when history obliges to overcome quarrels," said President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand to the Journal du Dimanche , calling for a "widest" rally, including with Cédric Villani, behind the successor. by Benjamin Griveaux in Paris. Richard Ferrand ensures that he does not "believe at all" that the majority have lost their chances of winning in Paris, after the withdrawal of the head of LREM list in the capital following the dissemination of his sex videos on the networks social.
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Do not confuse "transparency and voyeurism, prelude to a form of inquisition"
He recognizes that, "of course, the loss of the leader weakens!", "But the teams and the collective project are still there to build an alternation in Paris, outside of the right-left remake," he said. "A new personality will take over from Benjamin Griveaux and I hope that the widest gathering will take place around him, including with the Villani team," he said, judging that "those who, in Paris, recognize themselves in the action of President Macron, must stick together, have the spirit of a crew! ".
"If the disclosure of private life is tolerated, the life of each citizen will become hell", judges Richard Ferrand who calls not to confuse "transparency and voyeurism, a prelude to a form of inquisition". "At this rate, who will take the risk of public life if it becomes the antechamber of the permanent lynching?", He asks.
The Griveaux episode "gives the impression that the end justifies all means"
"The informers must be pointed out and punished, not their victims," insists the President of the National Assembly, for whom the Griveaux episode "gives the impression that the end justifies all means". For him, "we must apply very firmly, without any weakness, to the" digital society "the rules in force on the violation of the private life, the insult, the defamation and the slanderous denunciation and by procedures which allow 'act fast ".
Benjamin Griveaux filed a complaint for "invasion of privacy" and an investigation was opened, according to the Paris prosecutor's office, after the broadcast of a sexual video attributed to Benjamin Griveaux. The Russian Piotr Pavlenski, who obtained asylum in France and who demanded its dissemination, was placed in police custody on Saturday as part of another investigation into the violence.