Violence against elected officials: over 300 complaints for “threat of death” have been filed, according to Gérald Darmanin – franceinfo

More than 300 complaints for “death threat” have been filed by elected officials, according to the Minister of the Interior since the entry into force of the health pass. “Today we have more than 300 complaints filed by national elected officials or by elected officials who appear in the media because they have received death threats”, reported Gérald Darmanin, Tuesday, January 11, on RTL, the day after the attack on LREM deputy for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Stéphane Claireaux, by demonstrators opposed to the health pass.

Asked by AFP, the entourage of the Minister of the Interior specified that this count had been established from July 2020. Moreover, still according to Place Beauvau, 60 elected officials have been threatened since the start of 2022. On RTL, Gérald Darmanin said he saw a “increase” threats and discussed the context “particular” du movement “antivax”, while specifying that certain threats had been formulated “in the name of radical Islam” and that they were “of all kinds”.

According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 1,186 elected officials were targeted in the first eleven months of 2021, including 162 parliamentarians and 605 mayors or deputies victims of physical attacks, an increase of 47% compared to 2020 Some 419 outrages were also recorded, an increase of 30%.