Several members of the presidential majority have received death threats related to the government’s health policy in recent days, as they examine the bill that transforms the health pass into a vaccination pass on Monday, January 3. Some announced on Twitter or to France Bleu that they were going to file a complaint.
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Among these deputies, are the deputy LREM of Seine-et-Marne, Michèle Peyron, to whom an email promises a “massacre to come”, LREM deputy for Oise, Carole Bureau Bonnard, to whom an email announces “you are going to take bullets”, or the LREM deputy for Creuse, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, and the Horizons deputy for Val-d’Oise, Naïma Moutchou, who received roughly the same message, namely: “You only deserve bursts of bullets at your home and have your head cut off.” In addition, at the end of December, the garage and the car of the LREM deputy for Oise, Pascal Bois, were set on fire. The wall of his home was tagged with these words: “Vote no, it will fart.” This elected official had already received a postal letter accompanied by a bullet six weeks before, when the vote for the extension of the health pass was voted.
These deputies respond on the one hand by displaying their determination. The deputy Agir, member of the party of Édouard Philippe Horizons, Valérie Petit, also threatened, ensures that his “vote will never be dictated by fear” and believes that he “It is urgent to fight violence against elected officials as well as the bad joy it arouses and which plays into the hands of populism”. The Horizons de Seine-Maritime deputy, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, calls for “not to get used to” threats to elected officials and believes that “it is urgent that the political class as a whole act” because “it is our democracy that is in danger”.
No threat will dictate how I vote. You mustn’t let anything go, don’t get used to it. Faced with this rise in violence against elected officials, it is urgent that the political class as a whole act. It is our democracy that is in danger ⚠️. pic.twitter.com/mudRybuEwE
– Agnes Firmin Le Bodo (@agnesfirmin) January 2, 2022
On the other hand, several elected officials announce that they will file a complaint. Aurore Bergé, LREM deputy for Yvelines and deputy president of the LREM group in the Assembly, who called for a “common front against violence in public debate” in the Sunday Newspaper, indicates on Twitter that she made an appointment to file a complaint this week after threats. The MoDem deputy of Yvelines, Bruno Millienne, also indicates on the social network that he will file a complaint. LREM deputy from Loiret Stéphanie Rist and her MoDem counterpart from Meurthe-et-Moselle Laurent Garcia will also file a complaint, as they announced respectively to France Bleu Orléans and France Bleu Sud Lorraine.
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