The Kvatennen case: “He has to prove to women that his return can be useful,” Russo says.

Insoumis recently mentioned “thinking” about the possible return to the Palais Bourbon of Adrian Kwatennens, who resigned in mid-September after admitting to abuse of his wife, including a slap in the face. Until recently, he was on sick leave. “The question (of a return) is not put before me, it is put before the LFI and Adrien Quatennens,” EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau of France Inter, France Télévisions and Le Monde responded this Sunday. But “he must prove to women, especially battered women, that his return to politics can serve this fight” and that “he is ready to do it.”

“I tell him it’s impossible to go back now on the eve of the anti-violence demonstration as if nothing happened,” she said, referring to the demonstration against sexism and sexual violence organized on Saturday, November 19 by the #NousToutes collective. “A slap is never harmless, it is a crime,” and “justice must prevail,” insisted Sandrine Rousseau.

“Now within the framework of MeToo, the issue of return and rehabilitation has not yet been resolved,” said the deputy from Paris. “There are 200,000 beaten women, what can you do for them? Launched ecologist Adrian Quatennens.

“Nothing prevents him from returning to sit down”

Asked about BFMTV, government spokesman Olivier Veran said he was “very uncomfortable” with a possible return, even if Adrien Quatennens “is not eligible today”. “In his personal life, he is clearly guilty of a serious offense (…) The behavior of a deputy in his personal life should be all the more exemplary, since he is called upon to represent others,” Veran assessed. Adrian Kvatennens disqualified as a politician? “Yes,” the minister replied.

Radio J guest, Assembly President Yael Braun-Pivé (Renaissance) praised Kwatennense that “today, nothing prevents him from returning to the benches of the National Assembly”, in the absence of conviction. “I appeal to everyone’s respect. »

In the public senate of Insoumis, Alexis Corbière said on Thursday that “nothing has been established” but that the “group president” Mathilde Pano “indicated that there is discussion” about the possible return of Adrian Quatennens to the Assembly.