INFO FRANCEINFO. Seventeen deputies from the majority and LR targeted by threats and damage since Sunday

After the government’s recourse to 49.3 on the pension reform, several elected officials were targeted. According to information from franceinfo obtained from the presidency of the National Assembly on Wednesday March 22, 17 deputies from the majority and the Les Républicains party have been targeted since Sunday by degradations of their permanence and threats mainly on the networks. social. Thus, around 30% of the offenses committed against deputies since the start of the term of office in June 2022 have been committed in the last four days.

This is a significant acceleration in offenses against deputies because since the start of the current term of office since June 2022, 56 deputies have been victims of threats or damage. The Presidency of the Assembly indicates, however, that these figures are not exhaustive because they come from feedback from the Ministry of the Interior, the reporting unit of the National Assembly and monitoring carried out by the Assembly.

“Particularly worrying facts”

Of the 17 offenses listed since Sunday March 19, all the deputies concerned come from the majority (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem) and from LR, specifies the presidency of the National Assembly at franceinfo. These are mainly degradations of parliamentary offices with stone throwing or tags. Since Sunday, at least two people have been arrested. For example, a 31-year-old man was arrested Tuesday evening in Voiron (Isère), suspected of having degraded the permanence of the deputy MoDem Elodie Jacquier-Laforge, according to France Bleu Isère. He was identified through video surveillance.

In a press release dated Monday, the National Assembly indicates that it will “systematically as a civil party when a deputy chooses to file a complaint”. “These facts are particularly worrying”, adds in its press release the National Assembly. Yaël Braun-Pivet, the President of the National Assembly affirms in this press release that “every time a parliamentarian is threatened or attacked, the institution as a whole is affected, and with it our democracy”.