In recent weeks, attacks against elected officials have increased. Most recently, the personal garage of LREM deputy for Oise Pascal Bois in Chambly was vandalized and damaged by fire.
The President (LREM) of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand announced Thursday, December 30 that he will make a “precise point»In January with the Interior Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti on the threats and attacks against elected officials which are multiplying. “With the Keeper of the Seals and the Minister of the Interior, I hope that, from the month of January, we will take stock of the state of these situations.“, Indicated on RTL Richard Ferrand. It will be “both to identify the state of the situation, to check that the complaints have been followed up with research and to see where we are in terms of justice behind, because the perpetrators must obviously be punished“, He clarified.
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“We sometimes have the feeling, in any case what some deputies come back from their territory, that there is no sanction as fast and immediate as one might hope.“Regretted the President of the National Assembly.”Even if everyone is on edge, even if everyone is very tense because of the two years that we have just lived, it cannot be tolerated that violence is perpetrated or that threats or pressure take place.», Denounced Richard Ferrand. Latest attack to date, the personal garage of LREM deputy for Oise Pascal Bois in Chambly was damaged by a fire on Wednesday night, and hostile inscriptions possibly linked to the vaccine pass tagged on a perimeter wall of his home.
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At the end of October, elected members of the majority announced to file a complaint after death threats related to the health and vaccination policy of the government and referring to the recent murder of British MP David Amess, stabbed in mid-October during a parliamentary office. Faced with the resurgence of death threats against deputies, a referent was appointed at the end of November within the services of the National Assembly to “collect reports” and “to advise»Elected officials in their possible procedures.