entry to the National Assembly suspended for the parliamentary assistant of LFI deputy Raphaël Arnault | EUROtoday

The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, introduced, Monday February 16, to droop “access rights” on the Assembly of the parliamentary assistant of the deputy La France insoumise (LFI) Raphaël Arnault, Jacques-Elie Favrot, whose identify is “cited by several witnesses” within the deadly assault on younger nationalist activist Quentin D..

“His presence in the precincts of the National Assembly could lead to a disturbance of public order”justifies the presidency of the Palais-Bourbon in a press launch. Yaël Braun-Pivet “has therefore decided to suspend, as a precautionary measure and without prejudice to the outcome of the judicial investigation, the latter’s access rights”it’s written.

The public prosecutor of Lyon, Thierry Dran, will maintain a press convention on Monday at 4 p.m. (and never at 3 p.m. as initially deliberate).

The Justice of the Peace may make bulletins, the police providers having “collected several significant testimonies”. According to the prosecution, “the investigation is now focused on identifying the direct perpetrators of correctional and criminal violence”.

LFI below intense strain

The preliminary investigation, initially opened for “aggravated violence”, was prolonged to incorporate the {qualifications} of “fatal blows aggravated by three circumstances: the meeting, the use of weapons, concealment of the face”. The judicial authority supplies no additional particulars, involved with preserving investigations which look like progressing.

According to the identification collective Némésis, near the far proper, Quentin D. was attacked Thursday night by anti-fascist activists, whereas he was a part of the safety service chargeable for making certain the safety of his activists who had been demonstrating in opposition to a convention by LFI MEP Rima Hassan at Sciences Po Lyon.

He was taken care of by emergency providers early within the night and positioned in a coma with a life-threatening prognosis. He died on Saturday. According to the household’s lawyer, Fabien Rajon, the younger man was the sufferer of“a methodically prepared ambush”.

LFI is below intense strain, blamed by the suitable and the far proper. “It is clearly the ultra-left who killed”declared the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, on Sunday, echoing the feedback of far-right MEP Marion Maréchal made the day earlier than. “The Mélenchon and LFI militia killed”she wrote on X. “It’s not the police who kill in France, it’s the far left”assured the previous Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.

Raphaël Arnault expresses his “horror and disgust”

The supposed presence of members of the group claiming to be anti-fascist, the Young Guard – based by LFI MP Raphaël Arnault – amongst its attackers was famous within the ranks of the intense proper with out the prosecution having established such a hyperlink at this stage. The Young Guard “cannot be held responsible” of the loss of life of Quentin D. in Lyon, “having suspended all its activities”she assured Sunday in a press launch.

Raphaël Arnault expressed, on Saturday, “horror and disgust” after the announcement of the scholar’s loss of life, and stated on “all light be shed”. His parliamentary collaborator, implicated by the Némésis identification collective, “formally denies being responsible for this tragedy” And “withdraws from office” of collaborator “during the time of the investigation”reported his lawyer in a press launch.

“All the stories that were made in the hours that followed have no relation to reality”declared, Sunday, the “rebellious” chief, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, stressing that he “said dozens of times that we were hostile and opposed to violence”.