A demonstration which degenerated in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The deputy (LREM) Stéphane Claireaux announced Monday his intention to file a complaint after being targeted the day before by projectiles in front of his home launched by demonstrators against the health pass, an attack which according to him “resembled a stoning”.
“I’m going to file a complaint, that’s obvious. Some may think that the wrong decisions are made. We all receive death threats by email, at some point it has to stop, ”Stéphane Claireaux told the France Info website.
The deputy said that he was waiting for the demonstrators, who had to pass “in front of (his) home”, “in order to be able to discuss with them”. “There was a car loaded with seaweed, seaweed (algae set), and people started throwing me at me. It looked like stoning. My wife came to join me on the front steps of the house. I avoided to close to 5 centimeters a pebble which passed close to the face ”, he continued.
Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin had denounced an “attack” on Sunday night, claiming that Stéphane Claireaux had “received many violently projected projectiles in the face followed by stone-throwing”, while the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sébastien Lecornu had he was “lynched in front of his family home.”
Sébastien Lecornu also announced that he and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin had “commissioned the prefect of Saint Pierre and Miquelon to ensure the protection of the deputy”, also supported by the President of the Assembly national, Richard Ferrand.
This attack took place a few days before the establishment, Wednesday, of the health pass in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a community of some 5,900 inhabitants located off the eastern coast of Canada.