The Paris public prosecutor's office announced that it had opened an investigation on Tuesday for "death threats against people in public office", received for a week by deputies supporting the government's vaccine measures and the implementation of the pass sanitary.

The President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand announced Thursday that he had reported to the prosecution these attempts to intimidate parliamentarians, some of whom have themselves filed a complaint, said the prosecution.

The investigations were entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP).

"The President of the National Assembly notes that several deputies have been the subject of death threats because of their support for the vaccine strategy presented" on July 12 by President Emmanuel Macron to fight against a resurgence of the epidemic of Covid-19, he said in a statement Thursday.

"From now on, you will take real bullets"

"It cannot be tolerated that a representative of the nation may be the subject of intimidation attempts aimed at hampering the exercise" of his elected mandate, the statement continued, wishing that "the perpetrators of these anti-democratic acts answer to justice ”.

The press release did not give the names of members of Parliament threatened, nor their number, nor more details on these threats and their origin.

However, several LREM deputies, in particular Patricia Mirallès (Hérault), Alexandre Freschi (Lot-et-Garonne) and Jean-Marc Zulesi (Bouches-du-Rhône) have published on social networks certain messages received.

“Tell the other deputies to vote well because from now on you will take real bullets (I am armed), be careful where you go.

You will never inject us with the vaccine ”, underlines the message quoted by Ms. Mirallès, who judges this threat, which does not“ intimidate ”,“ very worrying ”.

Darmanin wrote to the prefects

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote to prefects and law enforcement officials on Friday evening to ask them to strengthen protective measures towards elected officials in the context of anti-vaccine mobilizations. The minister demanded to "strengthen the surveillance around the offices of parliamentarians as well as their homes if necessary" or to contact parliamentarians and elected officials to "remind them of the steps to follow in the event of an incident".

That day, about fifteen anti-vaccine demonstrators had invaded the office of the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand (LREM) in Châteaulin (Finistère) on Friday, before being put to flight by a gendarmerie patrol.

In Isère and in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, vaccination centers were vandalized and set on fire over the weekend.

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