The video of an LREM deputy, Stéphane Claireaux, assaulted on Sunday in front of his home by vaccine passwords aroused the indignation and anger of a majority of the political class. Traveling to Nice, Emmanuel Macron also denounced an "unacceptable and intolerable" aggression, deploring "the intensification of violence" against elected officials. Targeted by jets of earth and algae, the elected representative of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon says he first wanted to dialogue with these demonstrators whose procession passed in front of his home. “There was a car loaded with seaweed, seaweed (algae set), and people started throwing me at me. It looked like stoning. My wife came to join me on the front steps of the house. I avoided to 5 cm a pebble which passed close to the face ”,testifies the deputy on the site of France Info.
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On social networks, these vaccine passes deny the version of the chosen one.
In a video posted on social networks, they accuse him of provoking them with a middle finger.
"We are not aggressors," says one of them, through a megaphone, in front of a crowd gathered around a fire.
We wanted to march peacefully.
It is when we are provoked, that we are threatened with fingers of honor, we cannot expect anything else ”.
Stéphane Claireaux has announced that he wants to file a complaint.
With this aggression, a new stage seems to have been taken in the violence against elected officials, which has been on the rise for weeks.
According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 1,186 elected officials were targeted in the first eleven months of 2021, including 162 parliamentarians and 605 mayors or deputies victims of physical attacks.
That is an increase of 47% compared to 2020