While opponents of the government’s measures once morest Covid-19 experienced a resurgence of mobilization during the weekend, the mobilization degenerated in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The deputy of La République en Marche (LRM) Stéphane Claireaux announced Monday, January 10 his intention to file a complaint following being targeted the day before by projectiles in front of his home in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon launched by demonstrators once morest the health pass .
While the vaccine pass is currently under discussion in Parliament, the health pass must be required in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in the coming days, announced the prefect on January 2, angering part of population.
“I’m going to file a complaint, that’s obvious. Some may think that the wrong decisions are made. We all receive death threats by email, at some point it has to stop ”, Stéphane Claireaux told the Franceinfo website.
The deputy said he was waiting for the protesters, who were to pass ” before [son] domicile », “In order to be able to discuss with them”. “There was a car that was loaded with seaweed, seaweed [ensemble d’algues], and people started throwing me at me. It looked like stoning, he continued. My wife came to join me on the front steps of the house. I avoided to close to 5 centimeters a pebble which passed near our face. “
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The Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, denounced Sunday evening a “Attack”, by asserting that Mr. Claireaux had “Received numerous projectiles violently thrown in the face followed by throwing stones”, while the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Sébastien Lecornu, had considered that he had been “Lynched in front of his family home”. The Minister of Relations with Parliament, Marc Fesneau, for his part denounces on his Twitter account “Cowardice in the face of a lonely, peaceful and defenseless man attacked in front of his own home. An intolerable degree has been crossed “.
Mr Lecornu also announced that he and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin had “Instructed the prefect of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon to ensure the protection of the deputy”, also supported by the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand.
Multiplication of threats of intimidation
The boss of the LRM group in the Assembly Christophe Castaner also condemned on France Inter the “Cowardice in the face of a man alone, who was peaceful, defenseless, and who faced, who came out, wanted to speak”. “There were, in 2021, from what I counted, 322 threats once morest deputies, of which two thirds once morest deputies of my group”, recalled the former interior minister.
In recent weeks, threats and attacks once morest parliamentarians have not ceased. Garage and cars set on fire, tags, messages of intimidation, promise of beheading … At the end of December 2021, the personal garage of the deputy of Oise (LRM) Pascal Bois, in Chambly, was damaged by a fire, while hostile inscriptions, possibly linked to the vaccination pass, were tagged on the perimeter wall of his home.
After this event, several other deputies made public the threat messages received, like the deputy for Seine-Maritime Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, spokesperson for the Horizons party, who was threatened with beheading in an email. She shared a snippet of the post on Twitter claiming that“No threat will dictate[it] [s]a way of voting. You mustn’t let anything go, don’t get used to it ”, calling for a mobilization of the political class.
Jacques Krabal (LRM), deputy for Aisne, lodged a complaint following receiving an email from a certain «Onvatetuer» promising him “Beheading on the public highway” and the elimination of“Emmanuel Macron, but also [des] deputies, judges, prosecutors, magistrates, ministers, wise men of the Constitutional Council who collaborated on these last drops of too much “.
Regarding these threats, the President (LRM) of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, must make a “Precise point” in January with the interior ministers, Gérald Darmanin, and justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti. The date has not yet been set. A referent was appointed at the end of November within the services of the National Assembly to “Collect reports” and ” to advise “ the elected.