Cahors (AFP)
The permanence of the MEP LREM Huguette Tiegna in Figeac (Lot) was vandalized in the night, and a person was arrested, said Sunday the elected, after a series of similar degradations in recent weeks.
On a photo posted by Ms. Tiegna on Twitter showing the front door of its permanence, we can see on the outside wall a tag with the inscription "G7 want to fart" and "#Amazonia". "The windows were also broken in three places," said the MP to AFP.
"The police who patrolled the area heard a broken glass and immediately intervened, and one person was arrested and taken into custody," Tiegna said, adding that she had "lodged a complaint".
Since the ratification of the controversial CETA - Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada - on July 23, several LREM deputies have been degraded or walled up in France.
"A cardboard wall had already been erected in front of my permanence, and anti-Ceta posters stuck, but this is the first time I suffered such a malicious act," said the MP.
This incident comes at a time when the fate of the largest tropical forest in the world - the Amazon suffering devastating fires - is at the heart of the G7 summit held this weekend in Biarritz.
Mr. Macron "clearly expressed to our fellow citizens yesterday (Saturday, ed) his commitment and his proposals for the environment and the protection of biodiversity, referring in particular to the worrying case of fires in the Amazon", Ms. Tiegna wrote in a statement, stressing that "violence will not solve the problems of our planet".
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