The rebellious member Caroline Fiat wanted to pay tribute on Tuesday to the National Assembly to the nurse stabbed Thursday by a patient in Deux-Sèvres, by demanding a minute of silence, a move which President Richard Ferrand (LREM) opposed ).
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“We spent the weekend only hearing, despite ourselves, about the municipal election in Paris, obscuring all the news, especially on February 14 where the hospital staff mobilized to proclaim their love for the public hospital. Worse still, the murder of a young colleague (...) stabbed to death by a patient has been passed over in silence , ” said this professional nurse's aide during questions to the government. She was referring to a 30-year-old nurse, killed on Thursday by stabbing by a patient of a psychiatric unit in Thouars (Deux-Sèvres). The young suspect has since been charged.
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"As soon as a state official dies in the exercise of his functions, it is customary to pay tribute to him by a minute of silence in this hemicycle," continued the deputy, saying her "great surprise" that a request to this effect was refused in the morning at the Conference of Presidents of the Assembly. Very moved, the elected LFI therefore proposed to use the remaining speaking time to pay tribute to the nurse on behalf of her group, several elected representatives of the left rising in stride.
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"Mrs. Fiat, we are all sensitive to the emotion caused by the drama you have just mentioned, but as I indicated to the president of your group, the practice limits the practice of minutes of silence to cases exceptional and solemn, and there can be no minutes of silence in this Chamber on the initiative of a deputy or a group, ” replied Richard Ferrand. "Let me also tell you that on all the benches sit health professionals and that everyone here shares the grief of the bereaved family ," he continued, before withdrawing the floor to Caroline Fiat, who was standing Teary-eyed.
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