A mayor of Oise filed a complaint after being threatened on social networks for not having invited the RN deputy of the constituency to his greeting ceremony, AFP learned Monday from his lawyer and the prosecution. “My client has received numerous threats, including death threats” on social networks, underlined Baptiste de Fresse de Monval, lawyer for Renaud Bourgeois, mayor without label of Cuise-la-Motte.
These threats appeared following a video published online by RN deputy Frédéric-Pierre Vos, in which the latter complained “for not having been invited to the vows ceremony” of Renaud Bourgeois, according to his lawyer. Renaud Bourgeois filed a complaint on January 13 and was placed under police protection, said his lawyer, deploring that Frédéric-Pierre Vos was not “in no way dissociated from these threats”which “is not likely to put an end to the cyberharassment of which my client and his family are victims”.
A “real affront”
An investigation is underway to “identify individuals who have posted comments subject to criminal law”the Compiègne public prosecutor’s office told AFP. In his video of January 12, Frédéric-Pierre Vos criticizes Renaud Bourgeois for having invited to his wishes all the personalities of the department and the canton, except him. “This way of doing things is a real affront to the 60% of voters who voted for me” in the second round of the legislative elections, he is indignant.
-Asked by AFP, Frédéric-Pierre Vos, himself a lawyer, said on Monday he was convinced that the complaint would “to pschitt”the comments not containing, according to him, direct threats addressed to Renaud Bourgeois. “It’s me who was offended and it’s me who must apologize, it’s the world turned upside down”he protested. “(Renaud Bourgeois, Editor’s note) must understand that we are here for a long time”he insisted, emphasizing that many of his RN colleagues were ignored in the same way by elected officials.
