"
The people who took part in this totalitarian vision of France, by taking political decisions, are going to die, including you
". The macabre prediction is addressed to Stéphanie Rist, LREM MP for Loiret. An anonymous email like so many others, sent to representatives of the majority since the start of the examination of the draft law on the vaccination pass. The one who is also a rheumatologist, and engaged in current health management, shared the threat text on Twitter. "
The only thing you are going to get from me in return is bullets
" promises the anonymous author, who compares the majority to "
Adolf Hitler or any other tyrant that history has known
". "
The National Assembly does not have the right to question our freedoms,
”he believes, before resuming his threats.
In
Figaro
, Stéphanie Rist indicates that she would file a complaint on Monday.
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One example among others of “recurring” attacks, according to Jean-Pierre Pont (deputy for Pas-de-Calais), rapporteur for the bill: “
for a little over a month, I have received six or seven threats
”counts the man, also a doctor, who certifies that“
this has no influence on our work. On the contrary, we all came back up,
”he insists. Same story with an LREM employee at the National Assembly, who describes deputies "
almost all threatened all the time. Some file a complaint and do not publicize, others only mediate, others do both ... It is sadly banal
”.
On December 28, as the examination of the bill began, 52 parliamentarians belonging to different political groups had received a generic e-mail threatening them with death. In an email addressed to Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Member of Parliament for Seine-Maritime, pharmacist by profession, and member of the Horizons movement launched by Edouard Philippe, an anonymous person said that he "only thinks
about one thing permanently: come and behead you
" . "
The reason? Your collaboration, heads must fall, and I am ready to come and cut off your head to show my firmness in the face of your dictatorship
”. The rest of the text abounds in scabrous details: "
I ask myself above all whether a mini-ax is functional
". The elected one promised to "
do not let anything pass
”, referring to“
democracy in danger
”.
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, his entourage announces that a complaint has already been filed.
Finally, addressed to the deputy of Val d'Oise Naïma Moutchou, also a member of the majority and of the Horizons party, an email signed by a certain "
SWNA Anon
", declares that she deserves "
only bursts of bullets
" and to "
have your head cut off
".
"
It has multiplied, it is becoming recurrent
", comments the young MP, who also lodged a complaint.
“
It is indicative of the mood of the moment, and the mediocrity of the debate currently.
We are very quickly in the invective instead of exchanging
”.
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All the political forces affected by the attacks
For the moment, beyond words, acts of aggression remain rare, the last concerning the deputy of Oise Pascal Bois, who saw the garage of his home burnt down at the end of December. But the fears are concrete enough for the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand to announce a meeting in January with the Interior Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti on the subject. And if the members of the majority are targeted in the current context, the rise of tensions affects all political forces: last October, a man called in a video for Muslims to "
cut off the head
" of Eric Zemmour and Marine The pen. Taken to task in the middle of the street a few weeks before, a man having yelled at him that he was going "
smoking it, on the Koran of Mecca
”, Eric Zemmour noted on Twitter that these threats were also“
the daily life of so many French people
”.
In 2020, elected officials, mostly mayors or deputies, were victims of around 1,300 attacks, threats or insults, facts up 200% over one year.
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