"Degenerate people": Jean-Luc Mélenchon attacks the authors of the investigative book on LFI "La Meute"

The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, said at a meeting on Tuesday, May 13, that he had not read La Meute , the investigative book published last week on the much-criticized operating methods of LFI.

"What do I do? Do I take the book and answer it page by page?" asked the three-time presidential candidate during a rally in Aubenas (Ardèche).

"I haven't even read it. I don't want to read it. I don't want it to ruin me. I don't want it to get into my head," added Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who was speaking publicly about the book for the first time.

The LFI founder also called the two authors of the book "degenerate people," accusing them of having "reread and reinvented" the private lives of the rebellious leaders.

Last week, journalists Charlotte Belaïch (Libération) and Olivier Pérou (Le Monde) published an investigation into the movement created in 2016 by the former socialist senator, entitled La Meute (Flammarion).

This book, the result of two years of work during which they interviewed 200 people, describes a training program entirely organized around the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, where intimidation and threats are commonplace.

The book notably evokes Jean-Luc Mélenchon's relationship with the rebellious Paris MP, Sophia Chikirou .

In the book, former LFI MP Raquel Garrido , who was long close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and even served as his lawyer, recounts being hospitalized in a psychiatric ward due to the pressure she was subjected to. "Mélenchon is an abuser who creates abusers," she accuses.

"Where I have the time to mistreat someone to the point of sending them" to a psychiatric hospital," the person concerned dismissed on Tuesday evening, accusing Raquel Garrido of "talking nonsense."