The deputy LREM asks for sanctions “at the height of the violence of the threats” and the attacks which multiply against the elected officials, sometimes in connection with the health crisis.
“I call for a united front against violence in public debate. We got too used to it, the battle of ideas has become a street fight», States in the Sunday Newspaper the elected representative of Yvelines, herself the victim of threats. “There is a form of weakness in the response of society and some politicians», She laments. Aurore Bergé invites in particular “all presidential candidates” at “express yourself clearly on the subject“And”ask their own activists to be extremely vigilant about their actions and words on social networks“.
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“To say nothing is to endorse. There is a real problem with some, on the far right and the far left, who legitimize violence”, Estimates the member. “Today there is a specific subject on the health crisis, which is also very intertwined with the presidential calendar.” and “Eric Zemmour’s entry into the campaign added to the climate of extreme tension“, according to her.
“Each intimidation is also aimed at ensuring that parliamentarians no longer feel free to vote in their soul and conscience.», Adds Aurore Bergé, while the deputies lean on Monday on the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass, the adoption of which is beyond doubt, despite a tense climate and the hostility of several parties.
Many authors have gone unpunished
The MP, who will file a complaint for a tweet where she is compared to women shorn for collaboration after World War II, asks that the sanctions be “up to the violence of the threats” because “out of the hundred facts that I denounced, only one author has been identified“.
The president (LREM) of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand announced Thursday that he would make a “precise point»In January with the Interior Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti on these threats and attacks against elected officials.