The personal garage of the member for the Oise was damaged by a fire on Wednesday and hostile registrations were discovered on a wall of his home. The gendarmerie announced that a survey was in progress.
Le Monde with AFP
An additional threat that adds to many elected officials while the Government’s bill transforming the vaccineal passes is reviewed on Wednesday, 29 December in the National Assembly. The member’s personal garage, Pascal Bois, from the Party The Republic (LRM), in Chambly (Oise) was damaged by a fire Wednesday, December 29 at night, and hostile inscriptions tagged on a wall. of the elected of the Oise. Firefighters occurred around 2:30 am for a vehicle fire in a garage, did the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of the Oise.
m. Wood has affirmed at the France-Press agency (AFP) that his personal car had been partly calcined by the garage fire, located in an addiction at the back of his home. An investigation is in progress, the gendarmerie announced.
According to him, the fire was triggered by a “inflamed tire that was thrown”. Inscriptions “Vote No” and “It’s going to fart!” Have been painted on the wall adjoining the garage, “he added. “The most shocking is to go to the personal home”, while vandalism aimed at elected “most of the time” parliamentary permanent, he raised.
For the member, who claimed that he would file a complaint, the content of the inscriptions refers to opponents to the healthcare, who “are anticipating Monday’s vote on the vaccinal pass”.
On November 19, Mr. Bois had received death threats in a bullet-containing mail, like many other members of the Oise. “It was after the vote on the sanitary pass,” he recalls. The member for the Oise also said he received a “shower of emails describing attacks to freedoms” as part of the response of the authorities to the CVIV-19 epidemic. He denounces “cowardice, non-respect of democracy” on the part of “those who always want to redo the match”.
Multiplication of hate messages
The parliamentarians of the majority are far from the only ones concerned by this new wave of threats related to sanitary restrictions. According to the figures of the Ministry of the Interior, of 1 January to 24 October 2021, 1,127 facts of infringement of the elected officials were identified, or 3% increase compared to the same period 2020 (1,096). The mayors, and their first-line deputies, are more targeted by the contested sanitary measures.
But the multiplication of these hate messages, received by email or on social networks, led the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, to react at the end of November. “Such intimidation attempts are not tolerable and you can count on my vigilance and on my determination to fight those who seek to destabilize our institutions and threaten our representatives,” he said 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, 47 deputies, mostly from the ranks of the majority, have manifested to its services.