Messages of insults, Jérôme Marty, general practitioner, receives them every day.
So much so that he no longer pays attention to the "lousy", "bastard", "paid by Big Pharma" and other sweet words of the kind sent to him on social networks.
This is the common lot of the "media game", recognizes the columnist from Toulouse, accustomed to the plateau of the show "Les Grandes Gueules" on RMC.
But with the approach of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, the insults are intended to be more violent, more pressing.
He is accused of having "blood on his hands", of advocating the use of dangerous products such as vaccines, of lying about the number of deaths linked to the new coronavirus ... Some missives even take the form of death threats.
Jérôme Marty, president of the French union for free medicine (UFML), is not the only one to know this situation.
He identified a dozen colleagues who were victims of intimidation attempts.
The latter "do not wish to speak about it publicly, because they are afraid to stir up the thing", he indicates.
"It's the rope that awaits you"
He personally received "five or six death threats".
He filed a complaint for each of them.
Transmitted by anonymous mail or via Messenger, written or audio, the attacks are virulent.
"A bullet in the head, you shit room", "it's the rope that awaits you", fumed a user on Facebook.
In an audio message that we were able to listen to, another, in a hateful tone, warned: "Shut your fucking big mouth, because we're going to come get you."
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(Screenshot.) / DR
Recently, a man posed as one of his patients and contacted him via the office's landline phone.
"I had the right to a spill of insults, insults, death threats:
I'm going to die, I'm going to smoke you
..." remembers the doctor.
The individual, who gave his name in the conversation, "ended up in custody" and was fined for non-public insults.
The author of the malicious call is suffering from "a psychiatric pathology, Diogenes syndrome, and lives in difficult conditions", specifies Jérôme Marty.
Another man was arrested after threatening to kill him.
“This time it was by anonymous mail.
He implied by a turn of phrase that he wanted to attack my life.
Then again, he was obviously out of line and it didn't go much further.
"
The controversial document "Hold-up" as "accelerator"
If the doctor "refuses to worry" because "a barking dog does not bite", he nevertheless remains vigilant.
“When you come across fragile people, you may very well have someone take action,” he laments.
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“But today, you have a lot of people who are unfortunately at their wit's end, who have lost their jobs, their partner, and become mad with anger, ready to fall into any manipulation of conspiratorial circles and to transfer their rage to a scapegoat.
From now on, Jérôme Marty keeps this alert in mind when he receives new patients in his office.
Jérôme Marty, general practitioner, takes part in the program "les Grandes Gueules" on RMC./DR
The posting of the controversial documentary “Hold-up” has acted as “an accelerator”, he says.
Le Toulousain also underlines the "clear influence" of the theses developed by the film in the intimidating messages that he has received, or that other colleagues have shown him.
Structures close to conspiracy circles
His colleague Yvon Le Flohic, also very present on social networks, was sent "a recommended threat" at the end of November, telling him that if he continued "to make vaccines, to prescribe preventive actions", he would be "included in the list of genocidaires likely to be brought before a military-popular court".
The letter is signed Eric-Régis Fiorile, “provisional president of the National Transitional Council”.
The letter from the National Transitional Council group./DR
This collective, created in 2014, was talked about in July 2015 under the name of the July 14 Movement.
He then asked to take power for the national holiday.
More recently, in July 2020, Eric-Régis Fiorile had multiplied the messages to call to rally the operation "green circles" those who are particularly "fed up with dictatorship", "fed up with shit" or "fed up with confinement".
“The question is knowing when we go from verbal threats to written threats (it's done).
The next step is: when do we go from written threats to physical violence?
"Worries Yvon Le Flohic on Twitter.
Especially since the recommended does not come from an anonymous Internet user, but “from an identified structure, operating in France”.
"It will become complicated to continue to treat if we are not a minimum protected from these crazy people", fears the general practitioner.
Warning letter
Another "warning" text was sent to doctors, Jérôme Marty tells us.
And it is again a controversial personality who signs the letter: Christian Cotten, president of Politics of life, an association defined in a publication of the Miviludes (Interministerial mission for vigilance and the fight against sectarian aberrations) as "a sectarian group which hides behind a logo of different politics ”.
The Letter of Policy of Life./DR
In this letter titled “first warning before prosecution for rape of the Nuremberg Code and attack on the integrity of others”, Christian Cotten urges health personnel not to participate in the future vaccination campaign, which is “constitutive of a medical experiment ”.
Contacted by Le Parisien, this former candidate for the 2009 European elections on Dieudonné's anti-Zionist list says that it is by no means a threat, but a simple "reminder to the law".
For Jérôme Marty, these messages from well-defined groups must be reported on the Pharos platform as well as to the Order of Physicians.
In the same way, he encourages his “colleagues who receive threats to respond, by filing a complaint and by reporting”.
"It could get worse"
The MG France organization, the first union of general practitioners, has not yet been questioned by professionals who are victims of threats, its president Jacques Battistoni tells us.
“I think, and I hope, that it will remain a marginal and relatively isolated phenomenon, but I am deeply revolted by this type of attitude which I condemn with the greatest determination.
"
The doctor also calls on his colleagues who would be affected by intimidation attempts "not to remain isolated, to make their situation known by approaching their union, so that they can get out of it thanks to the collective support of their colleagues. ".
Same response from the Order of Physicians.
"We do not yet have any lifts at the national level, but this has been brought to our attention", explains the organization, which expects the phenomenon to worsen in the coming weeks, "when we start to be vaccinated ”.