“I know it will end badly,” says Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The rebellious leader returned in a blog note on Wednesday to the “attacks” of which his party has been the victim “for a year”, after the break-in and damage to his second home. “I know this will end badly because our demonization is designed for that,” he writes.
An investigation was opened following the “discovery of a break-in and damage to the secondary home” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon near Montargis (Loiret), the prosecution declared.
The house, “a farmhouse on the edge of the forest”, which the three-time presidential candidate says he acquired “26 years ago” and “renovated with a spoon”, was notably damaged by graffiti. Some evoke a swastika or indicate: “we will find you” (sic), “long live Marine” or “fuck the Arabs” (sic), he said.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon underlines that these outrageous slogans “resemble the vocabulary, the anonymous leaflets, the telephone messages of the attacks that we have had to endure for a year”.
“I find there the vocabulary of these racists who attack our positions against the genocide in Gaza. Yes, the attack is political, otherwise why these slogans? », he adds. “For a year we have all had the feeling of being protected neither by justice nor by the police,” insists the rebellious leader, deploring that “everything ends in the quicksand of nothingness or non-places in nine cases out of ten.”
The former senator lists “the harassing telephone operators, the physical attacks, the defiling graphers, all unpunished, the walled or ransacked parliamentary offices where the police do not take down identities, where the prosecutors do not pursue anyone”, or even “these attempts to “assassination that I discovered in the press months after the arrest of their authors”.
Political reactions multiplied on Tuesday after the announcement of these degradations: Marine Le Pen (RN) notably considered that “such actions must be the subject of exemplary condemnation”. The boss of the PS Olivier Faure deplored an “unbearable degradation”, the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard affirmed that “all this is unacceptable and serious”.
