According to the Ministry of the Interior, 1,186 elected officials were targeted in the first eleven months of 2021, of which 162 parliamentarians and 605 mayors or deputies.
Le Monde
More than 300 complaints for “death threat” were filed by national elected officials or “who spend in the media,” said Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, Tuesday, January 11th. These are complaints since July and the entry into force of the health care, then said the entourage of the minister to the France-Presse agency, adding that 60 elected officials had been threatened since the beginning of the Year 2022.
Emmanuel Macron deplores “the intensification of violence”
“In this particular context of antivax, there is a lot of threat complaint deposits,” said the minister on RTL. He felt that there were also threats “in the name of radical Islam” and “of all orders”. According to the figures of the Ministry of the Interior, 1,186 elected officials were targeted in the first eleven months of 2021, of which 162 parliamentarians and 605 mayors or deputies victims of physical aggression, an increase of 47% compared to 2020. Also identified 419 outrages (+ 30%).
The Minister of the Interior will be received Tuesday night with the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, by the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, to take a point on the number of cases identified and the answer judicial brought. On the move in Nice, Emmanuel Macron denounced a “unacceptable” aggression on Monday “the intensification of violence” against elected officials.