Thursday, November 28, 2024, the MoDem deputy for Vienne, Nicolas Turquois, saw red in the National Assembly. During a session suspension, the parliamentarian had a violent altercation with several left-wing elected officials.
Requested on Friday November 29, a dozen hours after the events, the person concerned declared that his outburst came following a series of posts published two days earlier on social networks by La France Insoumise, under the title “They are trying to block the repeal of retirement at 64. »
On one of these posts appear the name and photo of Nicolas Turquois, with the mention “85 useless amendments” and an invitation to write him an email.
“A “dead or alive” side that is very hard to live with”
“So I appear on a list with my name and my photo. These are unspeakable methods, from another time. There is a “dead or alive” side that is extremely hard to live with, reacts Nicolas Turquois. For two days, my family and my loved ones have been receiving direct arrests. A moral pressure that they experience very badly. That they find themselves in the loop against their will is unacceptable to me. So, yes, I shouldn't have lost my temper, I'm sorry. I freaked out, quote unquote. But I'm a poor human being, not a policy grinding machine. »
He completes: “Since yesterday I have received numerous messages of support which make me say that this story has the merit of denouncing the processes used by rebellious France to put pressure on everyone! »
It is useful to specify that just before the scene filmed at the foot of the steps of the Hemicycle, a first altercation took place at the top of the Assembly between Nicolas Turquois and the socialist deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine Marc Bouloux. The newspaper Le Figaro explains that the first “violently attacked” verbally the second.
“I will apologize to MP Bouloux”
The incident should be discussed at the next meeting of the National Assembly office. Nicolas Turquois risks a sanction.
“It is likely that I will be summoned, in which case I will explain myself to the officereacts the parliamentarian from Vienna. I will apologize to the socialist MP Mickaël Bouloux (1) and the office will make the decision it wishes to make. »
Nicolas Turquois does not intend, however, to apologize to LFI deputy Antoine Léaument. “It was he who came to provoke me. »
The “support” of its group president
He claims to have the ” support “ from the president of the Les Démocrates group in the Assembly, Marc Fesneau: “He would obviously have preferred to avoid such an incident but I know the words he said to me that evening. »
This is not the first time that Nicolas Turquois has seen red at the Palais Bourbon. On July 19, 2024, in the corridors of the Assembly, he almost came to blows with two parliamentarians from the National Rally, Jean-Philippe Tanguy and Émeric Salmon.
