Pensions: a Renaissance deputy, sued by demonstrators, will file a complaint

2023-04-24 13:49:17

“Today, I cannot go calmly to meet our fellow citizens because of a handful of individuals. In a press release published this Monday noon, the Renaissance deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, Jean-Marc Zulesi, announces his intention to file a complaint after having had to pack up on Saturday, facing a group of demonstrators opposed to the pension reform, during the Strawberry Festival in Salon-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).

In the images published and widely relayed on social networks, we thus see the deputy Jean-Marc Zulesi in the middle of the stands facing a dozen demonstrators accusing him of having supported the pension reform, several of them with saucepans. “Thank you for the 49.3, thank you for the police violence”, shouts a demonstrator, while the deputy leaves the place of the festivities, pursued for several tens of meters by the demonstrators.

“Using a false identity to know my schedule and organizing this type of intimidation is not a demonstration, it is quite simply harassment”, regretted the deputy, chairman of the Sustainable Development Committee at the Assembly. national, in a press release published this Monday noon, without further detailing the use of a “false identity”. “Preventing representatives of the Nation from carrying out their mandate is a strong anti-democratic act”, he also denounces, noting “a desire to harm, to affect elected officials in order to gain media visibility”.

The images of the act of intimidation of which I was the target reflect only one thing: the will of these individuals to choose harassment rather than dialogue.

Preventing elected officials from going to the field and carrying out their mandate is a strong anti-democratic act pic.twitter.com/diZAD0gfd1

— Jean-Marc Zulesi (@jmzulesi) April 24, 2023

This demonstration against the deputy responds to the watchword of the opponents of the pension reform not to let go. The Attac association, which makes a census of the movements of ministers and deputies, calls for “casserolades” during these public outings to disrupt them or even push for their cancellation. On Friday, it was deputy Freddy Sertin, deputy to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in Calvados, who had been forced to cancel a permanence in the face of the presence of a hundred demonstrators. Again at the call of the Attac association, rallies are announced this Monday at 8 p.m.