since the use of 49.3, violence against deputies has increased

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Vandalized hotlines, death threats received by post, insulting messages that parade by the hundreds on mailboxes or social networks… Since the recourse to article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the March 19, to have the pension reform adopted without a vote, degradations and intimidation against some of the deputies have become daily. The elected representatives of the presidential coalition and the Republicans (LR) who did not vote for the motions of censure are particularly targeted.

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The tenth day of mobilization, Tuesday, March 28, against the government bill confirmed this phenomenon. In Lille, the entrance to the home of the deputy of the North Violette Spillebout (Renaissance) was walled up by demonstrators shouting “Everyone hates Violette Spillebout” ; in Saint-Etienne, it was the office of his Loire counterpart, Quentin Bataillon, which was attacked; in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), MP Denis Masséglia saw his premises deteriorated. The elected Renaissance is on his third filing of a complaint for “insults”, “threats” and “degradation” since the use of 49.3 by the Prime Minister, which rekindled social tension.

“These people are just looking to break. They are waiting for any political opportunity to do so”, laments Mr. Masséglia. According to the presidency of the National Assembly, 37 acts of degradation or threats against deputies have been recorded after the use of this constitutional tool, out of a total of 80 elected officials targeted since the start of the legislature.

“Representatives of the central power”

The president of the institution, Yaël Braun-Pivet, was herself targeted, having received a “absolutely abominable threatening letter”she said on March 26, on RTL. “It begins very kindly with: ‘Hello fat Jewish sow. (…) We don’t have any more zyklon alas but iron bars to eliminate this crap Jude'”, reported the elected official, who filed a complaint. The deputies of Paris Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet (Renaissance) and Yvelines Marie Lebec (Renaissance) also filed a complaint after receiving an anonymous missive presenting the “same handwriting” than that received by Mr.me Braun-Pivet. In the letter sent to Mr.me Lebec, the president of the macronist group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, and her four-month-old newborn are also targeted: “His offspring is so small, he won’t be able to run away (…). Fire, baseball bat, iron bar. Everything is good to eradicate you. »

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