VIDEO. Jérôme Guedj regrets calling Jean-Luc Mélenchon a "bastard" but stands by the accusation of "anti-Semite"

"A heated argument led me to use the term 'bastard' and I regret it because it is neither my concept nor my requirement for public debate." A guest on franceinfo on Tuesday, June 17, Jérôme Guedj partially returned to the comments he made about Jean-Luc Mélenchon last weekend, during the Socialist Party congress in Nancy .

"On the other hand," the PS deputy continues, "I maintain, and it is always a bruise, the essence of what I wanted to say before this congress: namely that the socialists cannot be complacent, cannot compromise with a principle superior to all others, which is the respect of a certain number of values, the fight against racism, the fight against anti-Semitism, this is not something that can be negotiated on the left."

At the PS congress in Nancy on Saturday, June 14, the elected representative from Essonne accused the leader of La France Insoumise of having become an "anti-Semitic bastard." Three days later, on franceinfo, he maintained his accusations, citing in particular a text written by the person concerned against him . "The words were chiseled, he referred me to my Jewishness to explain a certain number of positions with terms that had overtones of the 1930s." Jérôme Guedj had broken with La France Insoumise after the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023 (New window) .