A disturbing phenomenon.
Gérald Darmanin has quantified at "534 facts" since last July the "serious threats against the elected officials of the Republic", directly linked to the rejection of health measures.
Guest of France Info, the Minister of the Interior added that there were “about 400 complaints, because not all elected officials file complaints”.
“We now have many arrests,” he continued.
🗣️ Threats against elected officials ➡️ “At the beginning of last July, there were 535 serious threats against elected officials” declares the Minister of the Interior.
"It's the end of impunity."
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Noting that for the moment the threats were mainly on the internet, he nevertheless added "to fear physical threats".
"This is why we are mobilizing considerable resources", he added, while a reinforcement of the protection of the homes and offices of the deputies had been put in place during the examination of the draft law on the vaccination pass.
Tired of the chosen ones
For several weeks, in fact, cases of elected officials being threatened or abused have been increasing in the country.
Thus, on Wednesday, we learned that eight members of an “antivax” group will be tried for online harassment.
These ten men and women, suspected of belonging to an Italian group of the radical anti-vaccine movement, were arrested on Tuesday in Moselle, Rhône, Seine-et-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine and Finistère. and will be judged at a later date.
They will appear for moral harassment by an online communication service, said the Paris prosecutor's office.
At the end of December, Pascal Bois, deputy (LREM) of Oise, had also seen his personal vehicle burned.
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Thus, at the beginning of January, several elected officials called for more severe sanctions against these acts.
“Coming to the National Assembly with a lump in your stomach?
Never !
“, had notably entrusted to the Parisian Aurore Bergé, categorical despite the threats of which the deputy (LREM) of Yvelines has been the target for several weeks.
She had asked that the sanctions be "at the height of the violence of the threats" because of the hundred facts that she denounced, only one perpetrator was identified.
