With extension of sanitary crisis, threats of deaths to elected representatives in recrudescence

Restrictions of restrictions on the pandemic, such as the introduction of the sanitary pass, put the elected representatives under the yoke of anonymous threats. Some denounce the degradation of public debate.

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A truck of anonymous threats ever more explicit. “I’m going to behead to make you pay”, “If you think we will continue to let yourself be done and keep your arms crossed, you are heavily wrong”, “Even when you will not be more deputy you will always be hunted” : The elected representative of Moselle Ludovic Mendes has rediscovered insults and daily threats from the stormy discussions in Parliament and the generalization of the health care to the whole population on August 5th. Accustomed to the CNEWS plateau, Mr. Mendes ended up complaining against X for threats of “decapitation to ax, guillotine, white weapon and shots in the back” occurred since the extension of this Device, November 15th.

The multiplication of these hate messages, received by email or on social networks, led the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, to react. “Such intimidation attempts are not tolerable and you can count on my vigilance and on my determination to combat people who seek to destabilize our institutions and threaten our representatives,” he says in a letter dated November 23rd. to the attention of all members.

A senior official, already responsible for the general administration and security of the National Assembly, has been referred to as referent within the institution to centralize the complaints of the elected representatives. Since its appointment, no less than 47 deputies, mostly from the ranks of the majority, have manifested to its services.

Securing the permanence

Always on 23 November, the restitution of a survey on the perception of the work of the deputies particularly marked the elected representatives present in the village hall of the Palais-Bourbon. A significant portion of the respondents said “approve violent behavior with respect to MPs”. The fourth fourth character of the State has expressed concern: “Regularly, there are death threats, ransacked permanences in proportions that were not until then known and which are quite unpublished,” said Mr. Ferrand.

On January 6th, the Capitol’s assault, the American Congress, made the effect of an electroshock in the Palais-Bourbon. A series of meetings and audits was organized in the wake of strengthening the security of the various sites of the National Assembly, in the Paris e and prevent intrusions attempts, during the crisis of “yellow vests”. Since the beginning of the five-year, more than 10 million euros have been invested to enhance the safety of the premises. In constituency, the question is also financed the establishment of video surveillance cameras to the homes and permanent parliamentarians who would apply, support police report.

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