Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a member of the National Assembly for La France Insoumise (“Unsubdued France”, LFI), a left-wing populist and democratic socialist political party. He is a former communist and a former member of the Socialist Party and the Left Party.

Recently the house and offices of Mr. Mélenchon were raided by the police due to alleged financial irregularities. Other prominent French politicians affiliated with LFI were raided at the same time.

During the police action at his house, Mr. Mélenchon live-streamed events with his cell phone in an extended video selfie. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is an excerpt from an RT article about the raids on La France Insoumise:

Video transcript:

00:00 Don’t touch me, Monsieur, you have no right to touch me!

00:04 This is the prosecutor who says I don’t know what.

00:08 Nobody touches me. My person is sacred. I’m an MP.

00:12 And in order to convince you of it, so you finish by understanding well who I am,

00:16 I’ll put this on:

00:20 Voilà. It’s me, Mélenchon,

00:24 with my three-colored ribbon. I’m not scared of anybody!

00:28 Those people can invade my house and the premises of my party and

00:32 my movement and they don’t scare me. We haven’t stolen anything.

00:36 We are honest. All right.

00:40 So this time I just had a look at the size

00:44 of the police operation, which is taking place. It’s a political operation.

00:48 It’s not justice , it’s politics. Therefore I’m asking you

00:52 to gather, those who can, who can join us,

00:56 who can come to help us, because we don’t have to lower our gaze.

01:00 So the headquarters of France Insoumise [Unsubdued France] is at 43 Dunkirk Street

01:04 in the 10th district in Paris. For those who can [come] at 11:30am, we’ll be there.

01:09 For the time being I’m giving the order: to all those who are inside

01:13 and can see me, and to those who are right now outside, especially the MP,

01:17 to enter the premises of the headquarters. We won’t be evicted from there by this gang [police]!

01:21 You have to enter and defend your headquarters.

01:25 None of this is justice or police. The new government

01:29 started its work with an operation that took place this morning at the homes

01:33 of nine people, in order to proceed to searches, and also at the headquarters

01:38 of the movement La France Insoumise and at the headquarters of the Parti du Gauche [Left Party]

01:41 I’m asking all my friends to occupy those headquarters and not surrender.

01:45 Not to be intimidated. And if, perchance,

01:49 they try to kick you out, hold onto the furniture and

01:54 resist in all the possible ways! Do not obey! Do not obey!

01:58 Those orders are illegal, unmoral, unacceptable!

02:02 It’s a type of political intimidation operation.

02:06 I want them to know what the consequences are for bothering us.

02:10 See, those people have been in my house since 7am. Imagine, it’s 10:20 now. For three hours

02:18 they’ve been coming and going in my house.

02:22 Some are armed, picture that, because you never know

02:26 whether I might fight them with a serving spoon or with I don’t know what

02:30 I might find around. Therefore I’m asking you to occupy

02:34 the headquarters at Dunkirk Street. You are there at home. It’s your place.

02:38 This headquarters belongs to you, with everything that is in it!

02:42 Don’t be intimidated. Don’t let them make you lower your gaze!

02:46 It’s not police; it’s not justice; it’s politics.

02:51 The fellow who reported us started by validating my campaign accounts.

02:55 Before complaining, after his wage was raised 57%!

02:59 His name is [François] Logerot. He’s the president of a pretend-commission

03:03 of campaign accounts [Mélenchon’s campaign finance]. I already said ten times that if they

03:07 weren’t happy they should re-examine all accounts. Do you see all those people here? Well,

03:10 I guarantee that they won’t go to the President of the Republic, who was also reported.

03:15 They won’t go to [the home of Christophe] Castaner, who is now the Interior Minister and was

03:19 general delegate of the République en Marche [Macron’s party] until yesterday. They come

03:22 to my house! To the houses of my assistants! Without taking into account

03:27 the neighbors, people’s lives; all that to intimidate and to scare.

03:31 Don’t be afraid! Resist in all the possible ways! Don’t be intimidated by them!

03:35 There, I’m counting on you, and at 11:30 am

03:39 be as numerous as possible in front of the headquarters of La France Insoumise,