Health pass: Gérard Larcher files a complaint after threats addressed to senators

After Richard Ferrand, it's Gérard Larcher's turn. On July 15, the former announced, as President of the National Assembly, that he was going to lodge a complaint following death threats received by deputies. The Republic on the move supporting vaccine measures and the health pass. In a letter dated Monday and consulted by Europe 1, it is now the President of the Republicans of the Senate who indicates that he made the decision to file a complaint after threats against his colleagues. "This complaint is based on article 433-3 of the Penal Code, which punishes threats addressed to elected officials as well as acts of intimidation", specifies Gérard Larcher in this letter sent to senators.

"Threatening email" received during the examination of the bill on the extension of the health pass

"On July 20, we received, in our capacity as senator and senator, an e-mail of threats within the framework of the examination of the bill relating to the management of the health crisis", justifies the president of the Senate.

"This email indicated in particular, that in the event of our refusal to oppose the health passport, its author would 'physically go' to our offices to 'claim accounts' and that he would be' copiously accompanied by the individuals whose [we hear] talk at the Saturday protests "against the health pass," he explains.

These remarks, qualified by Gérard Larcher as "unacceptable in a democracy", should therefore lead to a new complaint concerning the security of parliamentarians in France. On July 20, the Paris public prosecutor's office announced that it had opened an investigation for "death threats against people with public office" after Richard Ferrand had been reported. Members of parliament themselves had also lodged a complaint. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, then wrote to the prefects to ask them to strengthen protective measures towards elected officials in a context of anti-vaccine mobilizations.