“To say nothing is to endorse. There is a real problem with some, on the far right and the far left, who legitimize violence,” said LREM deputy Aurore Bergé who called for a “common front against violence in public debate “.
LREM deputy Aurore Bergé calls for a “common front against violence in public debate” and calls for sanctions “at the height of the violence of threats” and attacks which are increasing against elected officials, sometimes in connection with the health crisis .
“I call for a common front against violence in public debate. We have become too used to it, the battle of ideas has become a street fight,” said in the Journal du Dimanche the elected representative of Yvelines, herself victim of threats. “There is a form of weakness in the response of society and of certain political leaders,” she laments.
Aurore Bergé invites in particular “all the presidential candidates” to “express themselves clearly on the subject” and to “ask their own activists to be extremely vigilant about their actions and words on social networks”.
“To say nothing is to endorse. There is a real problem with some, on the far right and the far left, who legitimize violence,” said the deputy.
“Today there is a specific subject on the health crisis, which is also very intertwined with the presidential calendar” and “the entry into the campaign of Eric Zemmour (whose first meeting in early December was marked by violence, Editor’s note) added to the climate of extreme tension “, according to her.
A point in january
“Each intimidation also aims to ensure that parliamentarians no longer feel free to vote in their soul and conscience”, adds Aurore Bergé, while the deputies are looking Monday on the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass, including the The adoption is beyond doubt, despite a tense atmosphere and the hostility of several parties.
The deputy, who will file a complaint for a tweet where she is compared to women shaved for collaboration after the Second World War, asks that the sanctions be “at the height of the violence of the threats” because “on the hundred facts that I have denounced, only one perpetrator 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.
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