• “You will see that in the last week of the presidential campaign, we will have a serious incident or a murder […].

    All this is written in advance!

    “, Launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Sunday on France Info.

  • The candidate of La France insoumise has been widely criticized for this exit deemed "conspiratorial" by his opponents.

  • With this controversial statement, the member finds himself embarrassed in the middle of the election campaign.

A prophecy full of controversy.

"You will see that in the last week of the presidential campaign, we will have a serious incident or a murder […] All that is written in advance," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France info on Sunday.

“We will have the extremely serious event which will, once again, allow us to point the finger at Muslims and invent a civil war.

There it is, all that is boat!

", Continued the candidate of La France insoumise, citing as an example the Merah affair in 2012, the assassination of a police officer on the Champs-Elysées in 2017, and the assault of the pensioner" Papy Voise "in 2002. These Comments have caused a controversy since Sunday and could weaken the presidential campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Mélenchon accused of "conspiracy"

Because his opponents have hit hard, like Minister Marlène Schiappa, who accused him on Monday of making "conspiratorial words" and "shameful" which "lack respect to the families of victims" of the terrorist attacks.

Secretary of State Cédric O for his part denounced a "political and republican shipwreck", while families of victims of Mohamed Merah were also offended by this outing.

On the left, environmentalists and communists have remained discreet, but several socialist executives have also tackled the candidate: “To reduce the atrocities of the attacks of Montauban and Toulouse in 2012 to electoral plots is unacceptable.

When we handle demagoguery in this way, we cannot claim to become President of the Republic, ”tweeted Valérie Rabault, the patron saint of PS deputies.

One more controversy

Faced with criticism, the rebels united, trying somehow to explain the words of their boss: “The anti-Mélenchon crusade continues. He denounced the instrumentalisation, predictable, written in advance, of such events during an election period, ”thus reacted the LFI deputy of the North Adrien Quatennens. But the exit could hurt the tribune, already launched in the presidential race.

Because the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône is already struggling to find the going of 2017, after having suffered electoral debacles in the European 2019 and municipal 2020. He has also regularly found himself at the heart of controversies: judicial conviction for the incidents during the search of the LFI headquarters in 2018, criticism after its participation in November 2019 in the march against "Islamophobia" alongside the CCIF, ambiguous remarks on "the Chechen community" after the attack in Yvelines last October … What weakens its image in public opinion?

Popularity in free fall since the 2018 search

“In April 2017, he was the most popular political figure among the French, with 68% of favorable opinions, thanks to a successful campaign and the wisdom and calm he exuded during the debates. But since the 2018 search, the trend has been for its popularity to collapse, by nearly 30 points, ”says Frédéric Dabi, Director General of Ifop. "From now on, we see in our surveys that he worries the French more than Marine Le Pen, that his capital of sympathy has run out and his presidential stature has crumbled with these controversies, even if he remains the best candidate placed on the left for 2022 ”, recalls the pollster. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is credited, according to polls, from 11 to 13%, nearly double that of his left-wing competitors Anne Hidalgo (PS) or Yannick Jadot (EELV). Among rebels,it is also estimated that this release will have no impact on the upcoming campaign.

"Some are trying to use this interview in the service of the strategy of 'Everything except Mélenchon'. They take and distort his words to attack LFI, deplores William Martinet, rebellious leader of Seine-Saint-Denis for the regional. This attempt demonization is not new, but I believe that the population is more and more lucid about this kind of media controversy, and that they have no impact. ”

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