The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, drew a parallel between the president of the University of Lille and the Nazi Adolf Eichmann last April.
The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, announced on Sunday September 22 that he would be summoned on Tuesday September 24 to “respond to a complaint of insult” following 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 public prosecutor, there is no apprehension of criminal law on this subject,” assured Mathieu Davy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s lawyer, to AFP.
“I did nothing,” said Eichmann.
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,” said Eichmann. “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 declared.
