Le Figaro Nantes
“We can't say everything just because we're on social networks”
: Véronique Besse, various right-wing MP from Vendée, doesn't intend to give in after being harshly insulted by an Internet user.
On Monday, she voted against the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution.
In a message published on X (formerly Twitter), she explained the reasons for her vote.
Among them,
“the right to abortion is not at all called into question in our country”,
or even
“because the Constitution is not intended to include all the freedoms available to us in the law” .
This position earned him the wrath of a user.
“I'm not saying that the Vendée wars were a great success, but the extinction of certain bloodlines would have been profitable
,” responded an anonymous person using the pseudonym @Collabblues.
“He implies that I should never have been born,”
laments the targeted parliamentarian
to Le
Figaro , contacted by telephone.
She says she is all the more offended since she inquired about his identity.
“We know who it is.
He’s a tax lawyer
. ”
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She will file a complaint
These comments, since deleted by its author, will lead Véronique Besse to take legal action.
She made this known in a press release.
“Freedom of expression, although an inalienable right, must be practiced with respect for others and in no case authorizes the personal attacks of which elected officials are too often victims, nor the outrages which flout our collective memory,”
a she announced on Tuesday.
“It is an affront to the memory of the Vendée genocide, which is nevertheless a painful period for the Vendée
,” specifies to Le
Figaro
the non-registered elected official, one of only two to have voted against the constitutionalization of the IVG in Vendée, with Bruno Retailleau.
“We cannot insult the memory of the Vendéens,”
insists the senator’s close friend.
It is also an
“attempt to intimidate an elected official in office”
, concludes the one who speaks of
“double insult”
.
This Wednesday evening, she had not yet filed a complaint.
She was waiting for a return from her lawyer and planned to return to her constituency to do so.