Europe 1 with AFP 8:25 p.m., February 06, 2023

According to Marine Le Pen, four of the five women deputies of the National Rally received a message telling them that one of their children was hospitalized.

For her, it is a maneuver that aims to distract the members of the National Rally during the vote on a referendum motion.

The president of the RN group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, denounced Monday evening "maneuvers" to "distract" deputies during a ballot on pension reform, with malicious messages addressed to some.

I would like to denounce an extremely serious fact.

Several of our MPs received a fraudulent message indicating that one of their children was hospitalized.

This is a maneuver to distract members from their presence and prevent our motion from being presented.

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– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) February 6, 2023

"I would like to denounce an extremely serious fact. Four or five of our female MPs have just received a message telling them that one of their children is in hospital. This is therefore a maneuver aimed at preventing or distracting the deputies National Rally for their presence to vote for this referendum motion", she denounced.

"That people dare to use this type of method is lamentable", she castigated, when the Assembly was to decide on a request for a referendum carried by the RN, hostile to the pension reform.

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The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), asked Marine Le Pen to send her "a copy of the messages received so that we can look at what is going on".

His colleague Fadila Khattabi, president of the Social Affairs Committee, in turn denounced intimidation.

“For once, I am going to completely agree with Marine Le Pen. At the moment, several of us are receiving letters of intimidation, I received one, with threats to our families, our children," she said.  

"It's absolutely scandalous, we are in a free, democratic Republic, the parliamentarians that we are have no pressure to have regarding a text examination. We must not be intimidated", hammered the Macronist deputy.