Domestic violence: Adrien Quatennens ‘regrets’ making himself a victim after conviction

“What I regret is raising my hand one time, yeah.” Adrien Quatennens returned this Wednesday morning on France 2, reporting his conviction for domestic violence in December 2022. The Lille Criminal Court, in the guilty plea procedure, assessed during this first media intervention in the form of my guilt that “everyone can reform.”

“What I also regret is that I misunderstood at the time that some of the words in my defense were poorly chosen. I wouldn’t repeat them today,” he added. In a lengthy television interview, the man, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, believes that his heir was accused the day after his conviction as a “media lynching” and also criticizes his ex-wife and her “threats.”

“I paid more than enough on all counts. I will not give up,” he also argued for maintaining his parliamentary mandate. “What I don’t regret, however, is my honesty,” he added on France 2, recalling that, at the request of his party, he took “a course to raise awareness of domestic violence.”

“I studied, I worked, I understood,” he explained, concluding that “we must undo certain mechanisms that are ingrained in us, especially sexist mechanisms.” “But the takeaway I take from this is that everyone can improve,” he added. Adrien Quatennens joined the dock at the National Assembly just a month after his conviction. Expelled from his group for four months, his return to it was publicly condemned by several members of the movement. Active on social media, he had maintained a strict media diet until then.