“That doesn’t say good things about democracy.” A guest of BFMTV-RMC this Friday, Olivier Dussopt, at the forefront of pension reform, returned to the death threats and intimidation messages he has been the victim of in recent days. According to our information, his protection has increased from 1 to 3 agents.
“When they insult you, when you see images that are violent, it’s not nice,” said the Labor Minister. “In addition, it is not made to please, it is made to hurt, to destabilize.”
“Damaged” democracy
For him, this “sometimes arouses madness, hatred, bad feelings on social media or elsewhere.” “It is not my conception of public debate, what matters is that it says democracy and does not say nice things,” added the former socialist.
It is true that “I expected the debates to be difficult”, but “democracy is damaged” and that is “appalling”, confided Olivier Dussopt.
“I forgive little, it’s a character trait”
The Minister also returned to the case of Aurélien Saintoul. The deputy La France insoumise (LFI) called him a “murderer” this Monday during an intervention on people who died as a result of an accident at work. A few minutes later, the rebel had apologized.
“I hear this deputy apologize, but there are words that we simply cannot forgive,” Olivier Dussopt declared, adding that “the incident is closed, but it is not because it is closed that it is forgiven.” “I forgive little, it’s a character trait,” he explained.
Manuel Bompard, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, acknowledged an error “in the form”, but “there was still a part of the truth in what he said”, the latter estimated during a meeting in Montpellier on Thursday. For Olivier Dussopt, this “is significant of a” violence not personal, but of a movement “.
Source: BFM TV
