These three anecdotes that say everything about the Mélenchon system

POLITICS – Projectors skew on rebellious France. The publication this Wednesday, May 7 of the book The pack (Ed. Flammarion) throws raw light on the methods to which the movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon would have internally recourse.

Toxic management, verbal violence, threats, excommunication of former faithful … journalists Charlotte Belaïch (Libération) and Olivier Pérou (The world) immersed themselves behind the scenes of rebellious France. And reveal some secrets.

Since last summer, relations have been freezing between François Ruffin and the rebellious. The deputy for the Somme has brutally broken with his ex-camarades, qualifying Jean-Luc Mélenchon as “Boulet” and saying that he is “An obstacle” to the victory of the left.

Malmed ruffin

If the dissolution of the National Assembly has precipitated the rupture, political disagreements have been accumulating for several months. The authors of the book say that the troops of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have never spared the Picard. Thus, when he organizes a “party in Macron” in the streets of Paris in May 2018, the former socialist senator arrives with “A bus to imperial”at the top of which he delivered a long speech very applauded by the crowd.

Next door, François Ruffin and his “Small coach” look pale. He will eventually wipe “A few tears of rage” at the end of the day. A scene is indicative of the short cases made by Jean-Luc Mélenchon by François Ruffin. At the end of his film Standing women! In 2021, the rebellious executives asked him to reserve ten places for them for a preview in a Marseille cinema.

Amiens applies. But what was not his surprise to note that Sophia Chikirou, Manuel Bompard and Jean-Luc Mélenchon will finally leave the room … before the start of the projection. Worse: a few days later, after having 20 places put aside in a Parisian cinema, they will not even show up at the event. Willingness to humiliate the former reporter, whose ambitions for 2027 were already a secret of Polichinelle at the time?

The “head” and the activists

Another anecdote revealed by the book: the way Jean-Luc Mélenchon talks about activists. After the Quatennens case, pitifully managed in the High Lieu, some of his relatives alert him to the risk of seeing many small hands slam the door of the movement, disgusted. “General indifference” of management, note Charlotte Belaïch and Olivier Pérou, who consider that “If the figures fluctuate, it does not matter for Jean-Luc Mélenchon”.

“Activists, we will always have it”convinces the LFI leaders. A sentence pronounced by the triple candidate for the presidential election illustrates all his vision of the base: “The activists are my arms and my legs, and I am the head. I don’t need anyone to think “.

Soviet Union Photoshop

Finally, an astonishing practice of rebellious France is highlighted in the investigation: the use of Photoshop in order to remove former activists or former faithful out of ban. In Marseille, Alexandre Georges paid the price. “He left the movement after realizing that he had been erased from a group photo on the profession of faith of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, write the two journalists.

They explain: “It is thus in the rebellious movement, as in the time of the Soviet Union, when we eliminated clichés the personalities fallen in disgrace. Even in a very small one in a photo, in the middle of a crowd, the “traitors”, including the most secondary, are the subject of a few photoshop shots ”.

Mathilde Panot and Manuel Bompard, both members of the management, firmly dispute the facts reported in the book. They talk about ” lies “ and “Ragots”. After reading the book, we actually wonder if they could answer something else.

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