Ferrand, Darmanin and Dupond-Moretti meet on Tuesday

The President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, will meet Tuesday evening the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice, Gérald Darmanin and Eric Dupond-Moretti, to take stock of the violence against the deputies against the backdrop of an upsurge in these acts , we learned Monday from the presidency of the Assembly.

This meeting will take place at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Palais-Bourbon. It should make it possible to take stock of the number of cases identified, the investigations carried out and the judicial response that has been provided, if necessary.

Resurgence of violence against deputies

Richard Ferrand had announced the organization of such a meeting during the truce of the confectioners after the fire of the personal garage of the deputy LREM of Oise Pascal Bois, in Chambly, which had aroused strong emotion in the political class, on background a clear upsurge in violence against MPs mainly because of their support for the government’s health policy.

Gérald Darmanin had announced in the wake of strengthening the protection of homes and offices of deputies.

“A milestone has been crossed”

This violence against deputies and more generally elected officials has not stopped, as evidenced by the aggression suffered on Sunday by deputy Stéphane Claireaux (LREM) in front of his home in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. This was the subject of an almost unanimous condemnation of the political class.

“A milestone has been crossed,” commented the LREM president of the National Assembly’s Law Commission, Yaël Braun-Pivet who, on RTL, admitted to being afraid in the face of the upsurge in these facts. “Often we attack our offices, then we start to attack our private homes,” she worried.