the President of the National Assembly announces that she has filed a complaint after having received “abominable” threats

A way of denouncing the “massive phenomenon” violence against elected officials. The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, announced on Sunday March 26 that she had filed a complaint after receiving a “absolutely abominable threatening letter”. “It starts very kindly with: ‘hello the big Jewish sow. (…) We have no more zyklon [du nom de l’acide employé dans les chambres à gaz des camps d’extermination nazis] alas, but iron bars to eliminate this damn Jude [‘juive’ en allemand]'”read Yaël Braun-Pivet on the set of the Grand Jury RTL / Le Figaro / LCI.

“I have two pages like this, I obviously filed a complaint”, said the President of the Assembly. According to her, this letter presents “the same handwriting” than those received recently by two other elected officials from Yvelines, the president of the Renaissance group Aurore Bergé, and the deputy Renaissance Marie Lebec. The author attacked in particular the 4-month-old baby of Aurore Bergé, “so small” and that “can’t run away”.

More than sixty elected officials victims of violence

“Never, I would have imagined that by engaging in politics, I would have to suffer anti-Semitism, sexism, verbal violence, sometimes physical violence through our hotlines”, underlined Yaël Braun-Pivet. According to the count of the services of the Bourbon palace, since the beginning of the mandate, “61 parliamentarians suffered violence, whether within their office or by post or on social networks”, and especially “22 since March 19”.

If it is a “massive phenomenon”, marked by a 32% increase in violence against elected officials last year, a recent resurgence was observed during the challenge of the pension reform. More generally, Yaël Braun-Pivet castigated the “a few hundred individuals who come to destroy everything” And “undermining our freedoms” outside the processions. “These are people who respect nothing, certainly not human life”she argued.

She has pinned La France insoumise, which “in some legitimate way” the violence in the demonstrations considering that “These people have good reasons” and that there would be a “institutional violence” to which the thugs would only answer “in reaction and in defense”. “It’s amazing as a position”she was indignant.