Jean-Luc Mélenchon questioned Tuesday by the police as part of an investigation for “insult”

The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, announced that he would be summoned on Tuesday for “respond to a complaint of insult” after his comments in April drawing a parallel between the president of the University of Lille and the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

“On Tuesday, September 24, I have to respond to a complaint for insult launched by a Macron minister regarding my reaction to a banned conference in Lille.”he wrote on X on Sunday. “There will be no prosecution by the prosecution, there is no apprehension of criminal law on this subject”assured Mathieu Davy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s lawyer, to AFP.

At the end of April, the Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, announced that she was filing a complaint against the former presidential candidate for “public insult”The former presidential candidate had mentioned the Nazi war criminal during the campaign for the European elections, on April 18, during a speech in Lille, organized in the middle of the street after two conference cancellations by the prefect and the president of the university.

“‘I did nothing,’ Eichmann said. ‘I only obeyed the law as it was in my country.’ So they say they obey the law and they implement immoral measures that are not justified by anything or anyone.”he said. He later indicated that he had been referring to the philosopher and political scientist Hannah Arendt. “She explains how evil, absolute evil, always tries to dilute itself, by compartmentalizing tasks,” he had specified the following day on BFMTV, estimating that the president of the university had “behaved in this logic of the propagation of evil”.

A summons from the “first wrong adjective”

“All of a sudden, we don’t know why, a whole series of us – what could possibly be going on? – are summoned to the police stations again.”declared the rebellious tribune this week during a conference in front of the La Boétie Institute – the LFI think tank – which he co-chairs.

“There will undoubtedly be indictments, in my case it is absolutely certain, because I made the huge mistake of thinking that the university professors who were after me, or the Minister of Higher Education, had heard of Hannah Arendt once in their lives.”he also joked.

“At the first wrong adjective, you are entitled to be summoned to the police station, to explain your conception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced again this week.