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A Modem deputy violently attacked a PS elected official, Thursday, November 28, in the aisles of the National Assembly. Other deputies and bailiffs had to intervene to calm things down. What is the precise mission of the bailiffs?
The context was electric on the evening of Thursday, November 28 at the National Assembly. The hemicycle experienced an incident like it had probably never experienced. The Modem deputy for Vienne Nicolas Turquois climbed into the aisles of the left to violently attack the PS deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine Mickaël Bouloux, by pointing his finger a few centimeters from his face and launching: “My family has been threatened, And these are people from your village!” Sitting and impassive, the PS deputy ended up pushing away his colleague's arm. The president of the Modem group, the former Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau, intervened to remove his deputy.
LFI deputies then got involved like Antoine Léaument or Thomas Portes to ask him to leave. Nicolas Turquois then turned around and once again appeared threatening towards the two rebellious elected officials. Marc Fesneau and bailiffs intervened. The threatening MP was taken out of the chamber. The session was able to resume about fifteen minutes later.
As we see in the images, the ushers of the National Assembly are recognizable by their very particular uniform: tailcoats, white bow tie and chain on the bib. The rare women are dressed in a black suit.
10:34 p.m., Modem MP Nicolas Turquoi is fired by the bailiffs after physically provoking left-wing MPs.
Sinking of the macronie. pic.twitter.com/oQb9ahYeD0
— Damien Maudet (@damienmaudt) https://twitter.com/damienmaudt/status/1862249142447194415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Diverse and varied missions
Their missions are to guarantee order in the hemicycle, to block the staircase of the President of the National Assembly to protect him, to control access to the meeting room, to participate in protocol missions or to carry mail and/or a document to an MP. In fact, elected officials do not have the right to move as they wish within the bays. When an MP wants to send a message to another MP, he must write it down and have it signed by a bailiff who brings the note to the recipient. A practice that persists despite emails and cell phones. The internal regulations specify that they are subject to an obligation of political neutrality.
Bailiffs like automobile service drivers belong to the body of agents. There were 265 as of December 31, 2022. It was not until 1997 that a woman became a bailiff for the first time. Recruited through a competitive examination, they earn €5,000 gross at the end of their career.
