Despite reservations even in the majority, the deputies validated Tuesday in committee a bill creating a mandatory ineligibility sentence for the perpetrators of violence, conjugal or intra-family in particular, which follows the Adrien Quatennens case.
This text presented by Aurore Bergé, patron saint of the Renaissance majority group, will be examined in the Assembly Chamber next Tuesday. Alongside the president of the Law Commission Sacha Houlié, the deputy had presented it on January 11, the same day of the return of Adrien Quatennens to the National Assembly.
The member of the North was sentenced in December to four months in prison suspended for “violence” on his wife. He was suspended for four months from the group of LFI deputies, until April 13, and sits as a non-registered deputy in the meantime.
A project far from unanimous
The bill aims to extend the mandatory additional penalty of ineligibility, for five or ten years, to a series of aggravated acts of violence: those committed on a minor under 15, a vulnerable person, the spouse, with a weapon, or even in the event of racist motivation, having resulted in total incapacity for work less than or equal to 8 days, or not having resulted in ITT.
“Our objective is to guarantee the exemplary nature of elected officials”, affirmed Aurore Bergé before the Law Commission. But she has drawn the wrath of many of her colleagues who see it as the translation of the principle “one news item, one law”. “We are very reserved on this text”, said together the allied groups Horizons and MoDem. “It’s a communication coup”, pointed out Ian Boucard (LR), who rather judges that Adrien Quatennens “must be beaten at the ballot box”. “We must never give in to the dictatorship of emotion,” added Pascale Bordes (RN).
The left-wing deputies also expressed their reluctance, and Danièle Obono (LFI) was the most virulent in pointing out “a crude and dangerous instrumentalization of justice and the fight against violence against women for basely political purposes”.
“Some facts are not diverse”
While each camp was sending each other cases of deputies or ministers under investigation, Aurore Bergé launched: “we must all sweep in front (notre) door “. She recalled that the bill, if adopted by Parliament, will not be retroactive and will not apply to Adrien Quatennens, a close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “Some facts are not diverse”, she defended, arguing that her text was “a signal sent to the magistrates”.