Deputies receive threats while the first day of debates on the pension reform in the National Assembly has not yet concluded. At around 7:00 p.m., the president of the National Association group in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, wanted to “denounce a very serious event.”
“Four or five of our parliamentarians have just received a message that one of their children is in hospital,” she said.
The deputy sees it as “a maneuver that aims to prevent or distract the deputies of the National Group from their presence” so that they cannot vote on the referendum motion presented by his group. This referendum request was rejected a little later, by a vote of 272 to 101.
“That people dare to use these types of methods, I mean, it’s unfortunate,” he lashed out.
The representatives of the Renaissance also pointed out
The RN group is obviously not the only one that has received disturbing messages. Fadila Khattabi, chairwoman of the Social Affairs Commission and a member of the (majority) Renaissance group, stated: “right now many of us are receiving intimidation letters”, without specifying whether male MPs were also targeted.
“I received one, with threats to our families, our children,” he continued.
The deputy told BFMTV that she had received a letter threatening to kill her children and to “blow up her house” at her office in Dijon. The letter also contained white powder and was sent to a laboratory for its expertise.
“It is absolutely scandalous, we are in a free, democratic Republic, the parliamentarians that we are do not have any pressure to have in terms of a text examination. We should not be intimidated ”, hammered the macronista deputy.
The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), asked Marine Le Pen to send him “a copy of the messages received so that we can see what is happening.”
On Sunday, it was a deputy for Les Républicains, Antoine Vermorel-Marques, who said on Twitter that he had received a threatening message. “Be very careful with your vote on pensions. We are watching them closely”, reads the screenshot shared by the deputy.
“Beyond the method, I say it here as I wrote to this individual: my votes can never be influenced by any threat. Never,” warns the elected official.
Source: BFM TV
