LFI returns to school: after the exclusion of a journalist from "Le Monde", a heavy atmosphere, haphazard justifications and Mélenchon's attacks on the press
Report The day after the LFI management's decision not to accredit "Le Monde" journalist Olivier Pérou, co-author of the investigative book "La Meute," the rebellious leader violently attacked the "media class" who allegedly mistreat him.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at the summer universities of La France insoumise, in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, in the Drôme, on August 22, 2025. ROMAIN DOUCELIN / NURPHOTO VIA AFP
Less than ten minutes after beginning his speech at the start of the new term of La France Insoumise (LFI), Friday, August 22, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wanted to thank "information professionals . " "We are pleased with the interest our work has generated since there are more than 70 French and foreign journalists here, from all sides of the political spectrum," he praised, a touch ironically. In his great leniency, he thought it right to point out that his movement is "not upset when they speak ill of us."
Really? Yet this is what justifies the refusal to accredit the journalist from "Le Monde" , Olivier Pérou, for these summer universities. His fault? Being the co-author of the investigative book "La Meute" (Flammarion, 2025) on the internal workings of the movement, where violence reigns in words and p…
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