Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced Tuesday a "new instrumentalization of justice" after the revelation by the Duck chained of an investigation targeting the leader of La France insoumise and four of his collaborators for "breach of trust".
The preliminary inquiry opened on May 14 aims, according to corroborating sources, to verify the "conditions under which LFI executives, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon, paid the fines and damages to which they were sentenced" by December 2019 in the stormy search case at LFI headquarters the previous year.
"Intimidate and spread infamous rumors"
Just as the rebellious tribune then denounced a "political trial", he vilified on Tuesday "a new instrumentalization of justice" intended to "intimidate and convey infamous rumors".
Since his conviction, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has repeatedly joked about the sums due to the police for having "shouted on a landing". But the president of the group of deputies LFI also explained himself on the merits: "If the penal part, the fines, must be settled personally by the litigants, what was done by each of the persons concerned, the damages fall under they are civil. They can therefore be settled by a third party. " However, "La France insoumise has made the choice to settle these damages linked to a search of its premises", he argued.
"The civil parties continue their harassment"
"We are shocked to discover that, not content with having demanded exorbitant sums, the civil parties are continuing their harassment by taking legal action again rather than accepting a settlement, however legal," added the head of LFI.
The other four people targeted are State Councilor Bernard Pinerolo, MEP Manuel Bompard, MP Bastien Lachaud and press secretary Muriel Rozenfeld.
According to the Duck chained, it is specifically the payment of "26,500 euros of moral prejudice to the police" by five LFI officials who is the subject of checks because these payments "were settled with the checkbook of La France rebellious. "