A man has been accused of threatening MP Marwah Rizqy. The Liberal is asking for security measures for elected officials.
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“The tension, I feel it, the world thinks that everything is beautiful in Quebec, no!”, Loose the member for Saint-Laurent, in an interview with our Parliamentary Office.
About ten days ago, an individual made threats against him on social networks. He then proceeded to call municipal police stations and even the constituency office of a fellow MP to announce his impending death.
“I haven’t slept for three nights,” says the woman, eight months pregnant. She was entitled to a police escort for a day. “There, my knees started to snap. For the first time I said, if I don’t have an escort, I don’t feel like it anymore (to campaign), ”she adds.
The man in question, Claude Delaney, is accused of criminal harassment of MP Marwah Rizqy and of having communicated with her repeatedly, by means of telecommunication. The offenses with which the man from Sorel was accused took place between September 1, 2021 and August 25, according to the act of denunciation of which he was able to take cognizance. The newspaper. He pleaded not guilty and was released on conditions.
Doing politics in 2022 now comes with its share of threats and insults. Party leaders mostly benefit from important security measures, but this is not the case for deputies who do not have ministerial functions. According to Marwah Rizqy, the time has come to take care of this issue.
“This is our new reality. We are really naive in Canada for a G7 country to believe that it is okay to have so many elected officials without any protection, she said. In my case, people recognize me in the street, I don’t have a name that people can’t remember (…) Let’s line up our flutes and have security. It’s not as if Quebec hasn’t already had cases, there is a madman who returned to the National Assembly, there was a political attack against Pauline Marois and there is social tension, it is quite palpable”.
Since then, the Liberal MP for Saint-Laurent has asked that she be provided with a “panic button” to feel more secure.
With the collaboration of Antoine Lacroix