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Pensions: parliamentary offices targeted, prefectures attacked ... Darmanin reports "enormous violence"

2023-03-17T08:25:23.600Z


The Minister of the Interior, invited on RTL, deplores a "pressure" exerted by opponents of the reform on "the symbols of the State".


In a letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior, the patroness of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, asks that the services of the State be "

mobilized

" in order to ensure the "

protection of parliamentarians

" targeted by opponents of the reform of the retreats.

Invited on RTL on March 17, the day after 49.3 triggered by Elisabeth Borne, Gérald Darmanin reported on the violence and degradation that followed.

Burnt effigies, prefectures “

sometimes attacked

”.

There was extremely strong pressure exerted against the symbols of the State and parliamentary offices in several large provincial towns

,” said the Minister of the Interior.

This was the case in Albi, Marseille, Nantes, Rennes and of course, in Paris, near places of power, close to the National Assembly.

»

The Minister of the Interior regrets that the "

debate on pensions has been enormously violent

": "

The number of complaints lodged by parliamentarians, whatever their vote would have been, in recent weeks is very high .

Gérald Darmanin said he was "

very shocked

" by the power cut at Bruno Retailleau's home.

"Put names, say 'Look, these people did that, you have to threaten them, threaten their families'...

Touching a parliamentarian is touching the Republic."

The tenant of Place Beauvau also assured that the “

police and the gendarmerie will be there to protect the elected representatives of the people

”.

Source: lefigaro

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