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Targeted, the political class is concerned about the violence of the anti-vaccination pass movement

2022-01-24T11:45:28.936Z


Elected officials from all sides are moved by the incidents that occurred this weekend. The ambient climate is worrying. While the vaccine pass comes into force on Monday, new violence from the most reluctant to this tool occurred this weekend. On Saturday, the deputy of the presidential majority, Romain Grau, declared having received " a punch in the chin ". On Sunday, clashes also broke out on the sidelines of a demonstration against health restrictions in Brussels. So many inciden


The ambient climate is worrying.

While the vaccine pass comes into force on Monday, new violence from the most reluctant to this tool occurred this weekend.

On Saturday, the deputy of the presidential majority, Romain Grau, declared having received "

a punch in the chin

".

On Sunday, clashes also broke out on the sidelines of a demonstration against health restrictions in Brussels.

So many incidents that put the political class at risk of an escalation of violence.

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I am worried.

“ Invited on RFI this Monday morning, the president (LREM) of the Law Commission, Yaël Braun-Pivet, expressed herself in this sense.

"

The threats are frequent (...), very violent, very aggressive, often directed towards us, but also towards our families

", she detailed, believing that we "

cross

" sometimes "

the course of reality

“, with”

physical insults

“.

An opposition that has become “irrational”

If his emotion is shared by all sides of the political class, everyone returns the ball to designate a person in charge.

According to the elected macronist, it is not the sentence of Emmanuel Macron – who declared that he wanted to “

piss the non-vaccinated

”, which added fuel to the fire.

"

Today I find that the situation is tense, not by the words of the President of the Republic, but by this opposition of part of the population to the health policy (...) which is becoming completely irrational

", a- she thus declared, warning against people who question "

the social pact

".

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Conversely, the ex-LR deputy now spokesperson for Eric Zemmour, Guillaume Peltier, called on the head of state to be "

a president of appeasement of the French

", to "

demonstrate that he does not not use the health crisis for political purposes

”. At the same time, the (ex-RN) mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, criticized "

those who, in the political class, find excuses for these hateful antivax campaigns

" of making themselves "

responsible for this climate of 'aggressiveness

', designating, without naming them, figures such as Florian Philippot or Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.

Accompanied by his wife, MP Emmanuelle Ménard, the city councilor claimed to have filed a complaint this week after being "

threatened with death

".

"

It's more than a discomfort.

There is a fear.

There is violence from one party, in this case the antivax, which is a real problem.

It is an unjustified, unspeakable violence,

”he assured.

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For his part, the national secretary of EELV, Julien Bayou, wanted to send a message to the most virulent opponents from the set of Public Senate.

Go see your doctor.

Read, listen to recognized media.

We know that there is a lot of fake news circulating

, ”said the elected official.

And to call for “

approaching things in a more serene way

”, without using “

an argument of authority which cannot carry the intimate conviction.

»

Source: lefigaro

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