Duplomb Law: Gérald Darmanin calls for greater firmness in the face of threats against MPs

On Friday, July 18, Delphine Lingemann found the front of her parliamentary office plastered with the faces of MPs. That of the MoDem MP for Puy-de-Dôme was prominently displayed. "Here are the MPs who voted for the Duplomb law, the living will judge them," states a collage, claimed by the Extinction Rebellion collective on social media. "These are attacks that are not part of our country's values. We point the finger at culprits, we throw elected officials to the wolves with defamatory messages. There is a disinformation campaign, which is the opposite of democratic debate," the elected official protested on France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. She announced that she had filed a complaint against an unknown person the same day.

Delphine Lingemann is, in fact, one of the deputies who voted for the Duplomb law, aimed at "lifting constraints on practicing farming," on July 8 in the Assembly. Strongly criticized by the left-wing opposition, which denounces the regulated reintroduction of a neonicotinoid, acetamiprid, the text continues to crystallize tensions with a historic petition on the National Assembly website having exceeded one million signatures to oppose it. On Monday, July 21, the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, sent a letter to the public prosecutors asking them to show "great firmness" with regard to the "unacceptable threats" targeting parliamentarians based on their vote on the Duplomb law.

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