More than 300 complaints for "
death threat
" filed by national elected officials or "
who appear in the media
" have been filed, announced Tuesday the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin at the microphone of RTL.
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These are 300 complaints filed since July and the entry into force of the health pass, said the minister's entourage, adding that 60 elected officials have been threatened since the beginning of 2022.
"
In this particular framework of antivax, there are a lot of filing of complaints for threats
", indicated the minister, adding that there were also threats "
in the name of radical Islam
" and "
of all kinds
" , “
But we can clearly see an exponential increase
”.
According to Gérald Darmanin, "
today we have more than 300 complaints filed by elected nationals or made by elected officials who appear in the media because they have received death threats
".
1,186 elected officials targeted
The Minister of the Interior is to be received in the evening with the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti, by the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand to take stock of the number of cases identified and the judicial response provided.
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, an increase of 47% compared to 2020. 419 outrages were also recorded (+ 30%).
The deputy of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Stéphane Claireaux (LaREM) was attacked Sunday by projectiles in front of his home in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon launched by demonstrators against the health pass, an attack which according to him "resembled a stoning ”.
Traveling to Nice, Emmanuel Macron denounced Monday an "
unacceptable
" and "
intolerable" aggression, deploring "the intensification of violence"
against elected officials.
The death of the mayor of Signes in 2019
On December 29, it was LaREM deputy for Oise Pascal Bois in Chambly who denounced the fire in his personal garage, mainly because of his support for the government's health policy.
The Minister of the Interior announced in the wake of strengthening the protection of homes and offices of deputies, "
in the context of the examination of the draft law of the vaccine pass.
"
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"
Unfortunately and for several years there has been an increase in attacks on elected officials, the death of the mayor of Signes demonstrates
it", he recalled.
In 2019, a man overthrew the mayor of this commune in the Var, Jean-Mathieu Michel, with his van after illegally unloading rubble.
