An open investigation, but a summons before the investigators postponed because of the presidential election.
Just after securing the 500 sponsorships needed to stand for election, NPA presidential candidate Philippe Poutou announced that he was being investigated for his statements last October about “the police (who) kill”.
His summons to the investigators, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed indefinitely.
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Philippe Poutou officially candidate ... and summoned by the police https://t.co/2Qb8rmkw9a pic.twitter.com/sqimDGXnRI
— Philippe Poutou (@PhilippePoutou) March 7, 2022
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In a statement posted on Twitter on Monday, the NPA announced that its candidate "has indeed recently received a summons to be interviewed by the police (Tuesday) as part of an investigation for" public insult to a public administration "".
Summoned as a suspect
“The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin therefore seems to have carried out his threats, he who announced that he was filing a complaint against Philippe Poutou after he had denounced the violence and police crimes”, continues the far left party.
According to the summons to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP) broadcast by Philippe Poutou on Monday on Twitter and dated February 4, the candidate was summoned as a suspect, under the free hearing regime, for statements dated October 13.
"Insulting" and "unworthy" remarks for Darmanin
“The police kill, obviously the police kill,” Philippe Poutou said that day.
“Steve (Maia Caniço) in Nantes, in Marseille during a Yellow Vests demonstration, a lady who closed her shutters, Rémi Fraisse a few years ago… We would have to see the figures precisely but in the working-class neighborhoods, it is about fifteen young people who are killed by the police every year,” he said.
The Minister of the Interior announced in reaction that he had filed a complaint for public insult for these “insulting” and “unworthy” remarks, while the latter went further by accusing the minister of “giving the green light to the police to strike”.
The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed on Monday that it had opened an investigation on November 8.
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