Jean-Luc Mélenchon files complaint against the honorary president of the LICRA, who compared him to Joseph Goebbels
Lawyer Alain Jakubowicz was interviewed on BFMTV about the investigative book "La Meute," which criticizes the operating methods of La France Insoumise.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on Thursday, May 8, that he would file a complaint for "public insult" against lawyer Alain Jakubowicz, honorary president of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra), after the latter compared the leader of La France Insoumise with Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's former propaganda minister. The lawyer was questioned about the investigative book La meute , released Wednesday, which criticizes the operating methods of La France Insoumise , describing a group entirely organized around the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"It tells the story of a fascist movement (...). All things considered, I see a parallel - I know I'm going to get sucked into it, but it doesn't matter - between Mélenchon and Goebbels," declared Alain Jakubowicz, a guest on Apolline de Malherbe's show on Thursday morning on BFMTV. "The all-powerful man that the people must follow. It's fascinating and, at the same time, it sends shivers down your spine," he added, at the very end of the show, without any comment.
"He identified me with Joseph Goebbels, the anti-Semitic criminal. He also insulted our political movement, its members and its voters by calling the rebels Nazis. All this on the anniversary of the defeat of Hitler's Germany. Given his associative responsibilities and the day, Mr. Alain Jakubowicz cannot ignore the scope and the very seriously insulting meaning of his words on such a subject," he denounced.
"BFMTV deplores the comments made this morning on its channel by Alain Jakubowicz. Freedom of expression does not justify outrage and defamation," the management reacted on X. On the same social network , the company of journalists of the channel "firmly condemned [these] comments," believing that "nothing justifies such a comparison with a figure of Nazism." "Neither BFMTV nor I can be associated with comparisons like the one expressed this morning at the very end of the program, and which only commits its author," declared Apolline de Malherbe.
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