A new illustration of violence targeting elected officials. The deputy of the Somme Yaël Menache (National Rally) says that she was attacked and threatened with death near Péronne, Saturday evening, while she was at home with her husband.
It all started with “sounds of powerful blows” against the wall of her garden, she said in a press release posted on Twitter on Tuesday evening. As she went to the neighbor’s to talk, he and his two sons, a security guard and a soldier, intervened and allegedly insulted her violently. “The father threw himself on me, shouting: I’m going to smash your g**, you filthy p** of shitty RN MP “, detailed Yaël Menache on RMC.
The gendarmes quickly intervened on the spot, in order to calm the situation. “What was the most shocking for me, and where I have the most difficulty in turning the page, was when one of the sons ran, despite the presence of the gendarmes, to tell me: I’m going to get my rifle at my house and I’m going to smoke you, you fucking MP. There, really, the violence, the hatred on the face of this man, it remains incomprehensible, ”said the chosen one.
Individuals acknowledged the facts
She and her husband then went to the emergency room of the Péronne hospital (Somme). Their injuries earned them, respectively, three and five days of temporary interruption of work, reports Le Courrier Picard.
The daily adds that the persons implicated, visibly alcoholic, were arrested by the gendarmes and placed in police custody. They then admitted the facts. A neighborhood problem could be the cause of these clashes. Complaints have been filed and the Amiens public prosecutor’s office has taken up the case to decide on any follow-up to be given.
Yaël Menache, for his part, received several messages of support from elected officials from his camp on social networks, but not only. Marine Le Pen denounced a “shabby and cowardly aggression by thugs who obviously have no use for democracy”. “To trivialize violence in politics is to undermine democracy”, for example reacted the deputy Nupes Jérôme Guedj.