French deputies warn of attacks on constituency offices

Twenty deputies of the ruling party, the LaREM party, of President Emmanuel Macron, have signed a platform to denounce a series of attacks on members' constituency offices.

"We are beginning to get used to the intolerable", warned the deputies on the website of the French radio Franceinfo. "Our constituency offices are encircled or destroyed, MPs are insulted on social media because they voted in some way, some were targeted or even burned in their homes," MPs continued. .

Constituency offices of a group of ruling party deputies, the LaREM, have been targeted in recent days after the vote in parliament in favor of the controversial EU-Canada trade deal, called Ceta.

Anti-Ceta graffiti was smeared on the walls of some constituency offices and straw and eggs and rotten fish were thrown on the facades.

Yellow Vests
Several MPs were abused on Twitter after voting in favor of the agreement.

Farmers' unions have claimed much of the recent protest.

According to them, the Ceta agreement will result in the disappearance of livestock and, more broadly, European standards.

Saturday, the constituency office of the deputy of LaREM in Perpignan, in the south of France, was attacked. The attack was not related to the Ceta deal but had occurred on the sidelines of a protest against Yellow Vest.

At the height of the Yellow Vest movement during the winter, there were more than 80 attacks on houses and offices of deputies, including an arson attack on the house of the Speaker of the House, Richard Ferrand.