Chosen in the eye of the storm. Since the beginning of the debates on the pension reform, and more since the Government’s announcement of the use of 49.3 to approve the text, the deputies of the majority and the Republicans have received special attention from their political opponents.
“That’s not France”
In the last few hours, several elected officials from the presidential camp have received insults and threats by mail or on social networks. This is the case of the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who this Saturday with BFMTV claimed to have received “an absolutely despicable handwritten letter” in her office.
“I did not make it public because I did not want to publicize this individual,” he added, noting that the rebel Jean-Luc Mélenchon was complacent in relation to these threats.
In his town of Poissy, the deputy for Yvelines Karl Olive is meanwhile forced to be followed, at a distance, by several municipal police officers after receiving threats. “There was the address of where I was going this morning, and where they were going to ‘pick me up,’” he explains to BFMTV.
“It’s painful, I don’t accept it. I invite all my colleagues, whatever the party, to make it known, to bring it up, that’s not France,” he warns.
In Vincennes, a hanged man was even drawn on the permanence of the Renaissance deputy Guillaume Gouffier Valente, as well as of various labels denouncing a “denial of democracy”. The elected official announced that he had filed a complaint.
“It’s bullying!”
In addition to the elected representatives of the majority, the Republican deputies who support the reform and refuse to vote on motions of no confidence against the Government are also being targeted.
“I will not give in to pressure or violence. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the CGT will not bring France to its knees, ”Eric Ciotti wrote after his tombstone.
On the same social network, Agnès Evren, MEP for LR and Paris councilor in the 15th arrondissement, claimed to have filed a complaint after receiving death threats, with some supporting screenshots.
“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.
Finally, on BFMTV, the deputy LR of Corrèze Frédérique Meunier This Sunday he claimed to be 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’s unbearable, it’s bullying! ”, he complains.
Source: BFM TV
