The tension rises a little around the controversial pension reform. Violence against political figures has increased in recent days. The window of Eric Ciotti’s office in Nice, for example, was smashed and the phrase “the movement or the pavement” was spray-painted on the facade overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
Shortly before, the head of the Republicans – supporters of the pension reform – had called on the members of LR not to vote on the motion of censure presented by the opposition against the Government. An investigation has been opened and a complaint must be filed for death threats, according to the entourage of the elected representative of the Alpes-Maritimes.
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And the list of threats to elected officials only grows. LR MEP and Paris councilor for the 15th arrondissement, Agnès Evren, said on Sunday on Twitter that he was about to file a complaintafter receiving death threats, some screenshots to support.
“Shut up, support Macron. The guillotine also for your mouth. You and the other Ciotti scammers in the Place de la Concord. Drop your heads. Support Macron!”, can be read in these images.
Similarly, Renaissance MP Karl Olive testified that he arrived at the RMC studio on Sunday under police protection, after receiving threats. in the image of the deputy LR of Corrèze Frédérique Meunierwho claimed on BFMTV on Sunday that he was a victim of cyberbullying.
“We receive 200, 300, 400 emails day and night” about the pension reform, explained the elected official on our antenna, “shocked” by the magnitude of the violence taken in these debates.
“It is unbearable, it is harassment!” Still Frédérique Meunier lamented. “We see that there is a form of manipulation (…) We have the impression that tomorrow they are going to behead us. It is a real stress, we can no longer express ourselves.”
A hanging was even drawn on the permanence of the Renaissance deputy Guillaume Gouffier Valente in Vincennes in the Val-de-Marne, as well as various labels denouncing a “denial of democracy”. The elected official announced that he had filed a complaint.
Several municipalities targeted
At the end of the week, an investigation for “intimidation of an elected official”, after the degradations on the permanence in Colmar of the deputy of Haut-Rhin Brigitte Klinkert, confirmed to AFP the public prosecutor of Colmar Catherine Sorita-Minard. Inscriptions such as “you vote against us, we will remember you” were placed on it, according to the newspaper. alsace.
In Béthune (Pas-de-Calais), on Friday night, some protesters opposed to the reform also degraded the window of the premises of the centrist senator Amel Gacquerre, based on a label “Fuck 49.3” and a post-it on the facade. . And rightly so, the senator does not hide her opinion on the pension reform.
“My voting position is clear and has not changed,” he reacted after this act of vandalism. “I think a pension reform is necessary,” the senator develops. However, “is it normal for us to worry about our own safety or that of our loved ones because we are chosen?” asks Amel Gacquerre.
But hotlines aren’t the only ones that have been downgraded. Several town halls have also been labeled in recent days: such as that of Lyon (Rhône) last Thursday during an undeclared demonstration, or the Town Hall, the station and the cathedral of Amiens (Somme) on Saturday. At least two people were arrested, according to Picard the Messenger.
Renaissance Hauts-de-Seine senator Xavier Iacovelli also denounced on Sunday on BFMTV “increasingly virulent threats” towards elected officials in favor of the text.
“I am used to it, but it has intensified since the debates on the pension reform (…) with comments that are sometimes even anti-Semitic, if I take the example of the president of my group François Patriat”, who received death threats at the beginning of March and insulted with sexist and anti-Semitic slurs.
On Thursday evening, the head of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, asked the Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, to “mobilize state services” to protect parliamentarians. A large part of the political class gave their support to the elected officials who were the object of these attacks, such as Bruno Le Maire or Valérie Pécresse, who considered that “extremists” were showing “their true face”.
Source: BFM TV
