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Insults, attacks, death threats ... Violence against elected officials explodes

2022-01-09T19:50:58.575Z


INFO LE FIGARO - Between January and November, 1,186 of them were targeted. In one year, assaults have jumped 47%.


Mayors insulted and slapped, deputies threatened with death, advisers attacked ... In a deleterious context marked by a crystallization of minds as the presidential election approaches and by social exasperation against the backdrop of a health crisis, the representatives of the Republic are at the heart of 'a game of massacre.

According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior brought to the attention of

Le Figaro

, no less than 1,186 elected officials were targeted in the first eleven months of 2021.

Between January and November, 162 parliamentarians and 605 mayors or deputies were victims of physical attacks.

Or an explosion of 47% of violence!

At the same time, 419 outrages were recorded, which represents a jump of 30% compared to 2020.

The anger of the refractory

Exacerbated by the anti-ax sling, the scourge has grown to such an extent that the police have made it a priority.

On January 3, the judicial police of Le Havre thus arrested a 19-year-old internet user, hitherto unknown to the services, who ...

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Source: lefigaro

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