Urban violence: LFI wants to take Laurent Nuñez to court after revelations from Mediapart

LFI announced on Tuesday that it wanted to sue Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez before the Court of Justice of the Republic following the publication of an article by Mediapart according to which the government had asked the intelligence services to implicate LFI in the weekend's violence.

“I am going to take the matter to the Court of Justice of the Republic against Minister Nuñez, because making false documents...doing what we call abuse of authority, that is to say giving instructions which go beyond one's prerogatives, these are crimes,” declared the national coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard on Franceinfo.

“Absolutely unacceptable”

“If territorial intelligence produces false reports, if we ask them to write things in these reports that are false (...) that’s called a state scandal,” he insisted.

Monday evening, Mediapart published an investigation in which it notably cites a territorial intelligence commissioner asserting that he was asked "text to write that it is LFI which is behind the movement when this is objectively false in the general opinion of RT (territorial intelligence, editor's note)".

“That we come to manipulate the work of territorial intelligence to try to target rebellious France and attribute responsibility to it for acts for which it has no responsibility, this is absolutely unacceptable,” insisted Manuel Bompard.