Left-wing MP beaten by police during #YellowVests protests - ‘Macron is right ...

policeThe Interior Ministry counted a total of 39,300 protesters nationwide on Saturday (Image: Getty Images)

Leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon took the lawmaker’s defence, denouncing the centrist government’s drift towards brutal “authoritarianism” following months of unrest.  “Beaten with a baton as I was quietly leaving the protest. And yet [the Interior Ministry] says police violence doesn’t exist? Enough is enough, you’re causing chaos!” Mr Prud'homme, a member of the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party, said on Twitter. 

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“I was walking back to my bike when my friend and I were caught up by police. I barely had the time to pull out my parliamentary card … that they started beating me up with their batons,” he added. 

The local prefect Didier Lallement offered his full support to the police officers, stressing that Mr Prud'homme had taken part in an “unauthorised protest” and that the officers “were doing their jobs properly”. 

Mr Prud'homme later slammed Mr Lallement’s response as “unbelievable” as he accused the prefect of “condoning violence”. 

“This indifference is revolting. We cannot tolerate the normalisation of violence,” Alexis Corbière, another far-left lawmaker, said. 

loicPolitician Loïc Prud'homme has accused police of beating him with batons (Image: Twitter)

Hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon also jumped to his colleague’s defence, calling in a Twitter post for an end to the government’s “drift’ towards authoritarianism” following 16 weeks of anti-establishment protests.

“Beatings take place every Saturday. Every Saturday, someone leaves [a yellow vest protest] badly injured,” Mr Mélenchon said later in the day, as he accused riot police of using force to “scare off” protesters. 

Responding to President Emmanuel Macron’s claim last week that “those who join violent demonstrations are complicit with the worst,” Mr Mélenchon said the young leader’s comments were “absurd” and the words of a “man who is panicking”. 

“Mr Macron is right to panic, because he is the most ridiculous leader in Europe, one who is unable to solve a

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