"By this letter, I want to draw your attention to the uninterrupted succession of attacks that have targeted men and women engaged in the electoral campaign in recent days," said the head of the RN supporting candidate Marine Le Pen, in a letter. dated Monday.
"This escalation must stop immediately before a tragedy occurs. The state must crack down on all those who prevent the free expression of political opinions in our country", adds the MEP.
“Whether they are the act of ultra-left militant individuals or opportunistic aggressors”, these attacks “are each time triggered by the feeling of impunity from which their perpetrators systematically benefit”, estimates the elected RN.
The far-right leader evokes activists "targeted" in Hyères, in the Var, with "the windows of their car destroyed by individuals during a collage", while in Vedène (Vaucluse), " elected officials and supporters who came to welcome Marine le Pen's campaign bus were physically attacked.
The president of the RN also cites attacks against activists of Marine Le Pen's rival, Eric Zemmour.
In Metz on Friday evening, Generation Z youth leader Stanislas Rigault and a spokesperson for Reconquête!
were extensively insulted on the sidelines of a meeting of the candidate, according to a video they posted on social networks.
Two men aged 24 and 26 were also ordered on Sunday by the prosecution of Evry (Essonne) to a criminal composition, after having sprayed gasoline on pro-Zemmour activists on Friday, without causing any injuries.
The composition, which will be entered in their record, requires them to compensate the victims and to complete a citizenship course.
Eric Zemmour, who himself received an egg on the head on March 12 in Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne), had denounced in a press release a "total complacency of the political and media world" vis-à-vis these attacks , and asked "the State to crack down".
"They douse our activists with gasoline and leave with a citizenship course. This extreme laxity is a real call for recidivism," he tweeted on Monday.
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