Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly, November 20, 2020 in Crozon.
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AFP
A complaint will be filed by the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, after suspicion of identity theft of deputies, signatories according to them without their knowledge of petitions, we learned on Tuesday from a parliamentary source.
The case was raised during the conference of presidents of the National Assembly, which brings together Richard Ferrand as well as all the leaders of the parliamentary groups.
According to a parliamentary source, several deputies were surprised to see their name appear in the list of signatories of an online petition launched by deputies Matthieu Orphelin (ex-LREM) and François Ruffin (La France Insoumise) baptized "Noël sans Amazon ”.
A petition targeted by a cyberattack
Thursday, these two parliamentarians had denounced a "large-scale cyberattack", perpetrated in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday "through 218 servers belonging to the same person whose identity could be found".
According to MM.
Orphan and Ruffin, who had announced their intention to file a complaint, "several tens of thousands of fraudulent contributions had been added".
Another petition, "Christmas without confinement of neurons", is also concerned by this alleged identity theft, according to the same source.
Both texts have since been withdrawn from the online platforms on which they were launched.
The Quaestors, in charge of the general administration of the National Assembly, must write "to all the deputies to inform them of the possibility of directly associating themselves with the complaint which will be filed", explained a parliamentary source. .
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