After numerous press articles recounting the adventures of her first term as deputy for Pas-de-Calais or her setbacks with the gendarmes, Christine Engrand shunned the journalists. She broke her media silence on Saturday with a press release published on social networks in which she castigated the press.
Funeral costs, dating site, dog sitting, etc. It was Médiapart which revealed, last September, the various liberties that the RN deputy for Pas-de-Calais had taken during her first mandate. Freedoms that Christine Engrand had put down to “clumsiness at the start of her mandate”. Either.
“Hurt or even kill in the extreme”
A few days after these revelations, this same MP was caught by the gendarmes for making a phone call while driving on a highway in Pas-de-Calais. And during the check, it turned out that the MP's license had a “zero point balance” and that the technical inspection of her vehicle had expired. For this time, the elected RN had mentioned “an administrative error”.
In reaction to the numerous articles published in the press reporting these two cases, Christine Engrand went on “sick leave” until November 5, MP Caroline Parmentier explained to France 3. Absent in the Assembly but active on social networks, the person concerned denounced a press “commanded by a very politicized big boss” who sets himself up “as a tribunal”, which seeks “to injure or even, in the extreme, to kill people caught in the information net.”
Still against the press, Christine Engrand deplores a conviction “without court” and the forgetting of her “right to make mistakes”. Comparing herself to a bull in a bullfight, she promises to “survive the fight” by “proving her integrity”. In mid-September, Sébastien Chenu, the vice-president of the RN, nevertheless considered “that a deputy” could “not do that” and that he did not want “someone who behaved like that […] benefits […] of a new investiture. We will soon know if Christine Engrand's peers will rehabilitate her in the “integrity” she claims when she passes the RN office in the National Assembly.
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