Jean-Luc Mélenchon has a “patrimony of 2,465,000 euros”? Beware of intox

It is an intox that comes back as soon as Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a candidate for an election. It targets the assets of the LFI presidential candidate. Circulating in the form of a message, it indicates that the leader of the Insoumis has a “heritage of 2,465,000 euros” and that he “receives each month as a European deputy 19,105 euros” and 17,000 euros as a senator from Essonne . A “total of 36,105 euros per month of public money” concludes the message, in addition to “reimbursement of plane, taxi, telephone, post, SNCF, etc. “.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not been a senator since 2010. – Facebook screenshot

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Like the other presidential candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon filled in March a statement of assets. The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône does not have a heritage of nearly 2.5 million euros, as claimed in the viral message. He owns an apartment in Paris worth 1.2 million euros, from which 99,145 euros of bank loan must be deducted, and a house in the Loiret valued at 170,000 euros. This makes a heritage worth 1,270,855 euros, or about 1.2 million euros less than the 2.5 million announced on the viral message.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon also had 95,236 euros in various accounts and bank books at the time of completing this declaration. He did not declare that he held other assets whose value is greater than 10,000 euros or other financial objects.

During the previous presidential election, in 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not, again, have a heritage of nearly 2.5 million euros. The combined value of his apartment and his house was valued at 875,277 euros, once his loans were subtracted.

What about any income from MEPs and senators? The intox claims that he receives “every month” a sum of 19,105 euros as a European deputy and 17,000 euros as a senator from Essonne. Jean-Luc Mélenchon was a European deputy from 2009 to 2017. When he became a deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône in 2017, he left this European mandate. He then said having received 100,182 euros gross per year between 2011 and 2016 and 50,091 euros in 2017. This represents 8,348 euros per month.

As for the seat of senator for Essonne, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not held it since 2010. He sat in the upper house between 1986 and 2000, then between 2004 and 2010. In 2013, he wrote on his site not to “receive any pension on his past activities, whatever[il] is old enough, because [il] believes that he has sufficient income and that[il est] solidarity. »

If he had decided to exercise his retirement rights, Jean-Luc Mélenchon could have received a Senate pension. This one is paid from the age of 62 for senators born after January 1, 1955 and amounted on average on March 1, 2018 to 3,856 euros net. Former MEPs are also eligible for a pension from the age of 63 and its amount “amounts, for each full year of mandate, to 3.5% of remuneration”, Explain the website of the European Parliament.

The intox resurfaces while the Insoumis are negotiating with the PS, EELV and the PC with a view to forming alliances for the legislative elections which will take place on June 12 and 19.

It had already circulated in 2017 in a form slightly different. Jean-Luc Melenchon answered it on his blog, revealing the amount of his real estate assets and explaining that he does not have shares “nor any other form of investment, which is not smart”. “I don’t own any luxury, or even ordinary, vehicle,” he added. […] I do not drive “.

Not “either collection paintings, boats, bicycles or horses” for the chosen one, but a library “of around 12,000 books”. “But I don’t know how to evaluate them,” he confided ironically. By weight? At the cost of content? Any advice would be welcome. I’m afraid they are priceless. Which would make me either very rich or tragically out of the market economy. »

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