But who therefore sends these letters to the deputies of the majority, in full protest against the pension reform? After the deputies Aurore Bergé and Marie Lebec, the Renaissance deputy for Paris, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, in turn deplores, this Sunday, the receipt of a letter of threats and insults. Earlier, the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet had announced that she had filed a complaint after receiving a similar letter, seeming to come from the same sender.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, on the RTL / Le Figaro / LCI Grand Jury set, denounced a “massive phenomenon” of violence against elected officials. And to read a letter that she herself received recently: “It begins very kindly with: Hello fat Jewish sow. (…) Unfortunately, we no longer have zyklon, but iron bars to eliminate this crap Jude. “I have two pages like that, I obviously filed a complaint. »
According to Yaël Braun-Pivet, this letter presents “the same writing” as those recently received by two other elected officials from Yvelines, the president of the Renaissance group Aurore Bergé, and the Renaissance deputy Marie Lebec. The author attacked in particular Aurore Bergé’s 4-month-old baby, “so small” and who “cannot escape”.
Messages sent from 2020
The deputy of Paris, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, also published a letter received whose writing, difficult to read, seems to be the same. “Being treated like a dirty whore, you can’t get used to it,” she laments. But threatening my children with death, rejoicing over the death of my husband, there are no words. “Doctor Karine Lacombe, very visible in the media during the Covid-19, also published this Sunday a message on Twitter of a letter received in 2020 appearing to come from the same person. “No, these letters are not montages, we are dealing with a patient,” she wrote.
“I never would have imagined that by engaging in politics I would have to suffer anti-Semitism, sexism, verbal violence, sometimes physical violence through our offices”, underlined Yaël Braun-Pivet this Sunday.
Growing violence
According to the count of the services of the Palais-Bourbon, since the beginning of the mandate, “61 parliamentarians have suffered violence, whether within their office or by mail or on social networks” and in particular “22 since March 19 “. If it is a “massive phenomenon”, marked by a 32% increase in violence against elected officials last year, the recent resurgence is also explained by the challenge of the pension reform.
More generally, Yaël Braun-Pivet castigated the “several hundred individuals who come to smash everything” and “undermine our freedoms” on the sidelines of the processions. “These are people who don’t respect anything, certainly not human life,” she argued. She incidentally pinned La France insoumise which “in a certain way legitimizes” the violence in the demonstrations by considering that “these individuals have good reasons” and that there is an “institutional violence” to which the thugs would only respond. “in reaction and in defense”.