The sanction fell. The delegation of European deputies from La France insoumise announced on Monday that it had excluded elected representative Anne-Sophie Pelletier from its group, for “harassing, inappropriate and aggressive behavior” towards 13 parliamentary assistants since 2019.
In a press release, the delegation indicates that “13 parliamentary assistants” reported “degraded working conditions and harassing, inappropriate and aggressive behavior towards them on the part of Anne-Sophie Pelletier”, since the start of his mandate four years ago.
“In this context, we have therefore taken the decision to exclude Anne-Sophie Pelletier from our delegation,” add the rebellious MEPs, judging this behavior “incompatible with the values” of their delegation. The latter says it has ensured that measures are taken to protect parliamentary assistants “while allowing them to keep their jobs”.
He is accused of having “humiliated colleagues”
Recently, at the National Assembly, the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Raquel Garrido was also sanctioned by her group. Without being excluded, she was banned from being “a speaker on behalf of the group in parliamentary proceedings for a period of four months”.
He was accused of having harmed “the good collective functioning of the parliamentary group” by “the dissemination of false information in the press” or “the questioning and ad hominem denigration of several members of the group”. Members of the group indicated that he was also accused of having “humiliated collaborators” in the Assembly.
Raquel Garrido claims to have been sanctioned for having expressed her disagreement with “the way in which La France insoumise has been run for a year”. Another deputy, Adrien Quatennens, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, sentenced in December 2022 to four months in prison for violence against his ex-partner, had also been, in parallel with this court decision, suspended from the LFI group in the Assembly for four months.