Violence against elected officials continues to increase, and to worry the political class.
Invited on Thursday January 27 on France Inter, the president (LREM) of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, spoke of “
intolerable
” violence.
He also made several proposals to further support the victims of these acts.
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The observation is undeniable: “
Yes
”, violence against elected officials has increased.
Above all, "
what has increased are explicit death threats, physical attacks, even to the homes of elected officials
," said the macronist.
“
Over time (...) there has undoubtedly been a collective abandonment of a certain number of marks of respect for those who hold a certain authority, or those who represent the French
", he added.
Placing “institutions” alongside threatened elected officials
To help elected officials who are victims of these threats - or even of these acts - the President of the Palais Bourbon explained that he had already put in place a system allowing "to
collect the nature of the complaints within the National Assembly itself
" .
.
The elected official wants to go even further, by allowing the “
communities
” or “
institutions from which one is elected
” to be able to “
bring a civil action before the courts alongside individual victims
”.
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It would therefore be for elected officials to file a complaint while involving in their approach the National Assembly for a deputy, the Senate for a senator or even the town hall for a local elected official.
As many structures which would then be informed of the continuation of the investigation, and empowered to request compensation for the damage suffered.
A measure which, according to Richard Ferrand, would aim to show that "
institutions, communities, everything that cements our democratic life will always be alongside elected officials who could be threatened
".
The deputy of Finistère also wishes to extend this provision to spouses and children, who are sometimes also taken to task.
