Yaël Braun-Pivet announced that he had filed a complaint with civil action on behalf of the National Assembly.
The presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate took legal action on Wednesday, June 7, after many parliamentarians received anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic emails, AFP learned from the two institutions. “In recent days a large number of us have received an anti-Semitic email. Such an act cannot remain without reaction. I have therefore decided to file a complaint with a civil action, on behalf of our institution. “writes the president of the Palais-Bourbon, Yaël Braun-Pivet, in a letter to the deputies of which AFP obtained a copy.
“Very many deputies have been targeted, all groups are affected”. “This is an operation that was obviously done via software”, specified the presidency of the Assembly. Concerning the Senate, its president, Gérard Larcher, announced, also by mail, having seized the Paris prosecutor under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure after the reception by several senators “anti-Semitic emails and incitement to racial hatred, which included many Nazi symbols”.
More than 80 parliamentarians from the presidential majority have filed a collective complaint with the national center for the fight against online hatred of the Paris judicial court, for its part, the Renaissance group informed the Assembly. These deputies received, on Monday and Tuesday, on their e-mail addresses from the National Assembly, two e-mails accompanied by “anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic leaflets” with the aim of “restore the domination of the white race in Europe”said the deputy of Moselle, Ludovic Mendes.
The leaflets contained a link to a website “encouraging acts of ultimate violence of a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic nature”with “several explicit references to the Nazi regime and Holocaust denial, as well as a return to National Socialism”he continued. “These emails deeply shocked us by the messages of hatred they convey, by their calls for violence, as well as by the use of references to Nazi barbarism”. But, “these seem to be sent via software that does not allow direct tracing to the sender”noted the Moselle deputy.