LFI files a complaint after the arrest of a wrongly accused activist

The counting of the ballots was heckled, in Valenciennnes, in the North.

And the activists of La France Insoumise (LFI) are angry.

During the first round of the presidential election on April 10, a polling station was the scene of an unusual scene in the evening.

Police officers disembarked to embark manu militari a young LFI activist who was present at the count.

Bulletins found

The latter was accused of having stolen an envelope containing one hundred ballot papers, reports the regional daily

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“For forty-five minutes, he will be questioned until a phone call announces that the ballots have been found in the same polling station,” explains LFI, in a press release.

According to the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the young man, who works in catering, had presented himself on Sunday morning at the polling station "to participate in the electoral operations".

"However, the president of the polling station did not want to appoint him as an assessor and he went home, disappointed", complain the officials of LFI who decided to file a complaint for "defamatory accusation".

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• Lille

• Hauts-de-France

• La France Insoumise (LFI)

• Jean-Luc Melenchon

• Presidential election 2022

• Vote

• Defamation

• Valenciennes