Overview
- Bellamy said about a hundred demonstrators confronted him at Paris’s Gare du Nord on October 2 during a nationwide strike day and chanted “Bellamy à l’échafaud.”
- The Les Républicains MEP was traveling to the European Parliament in Brussels and told Europe 1 he was insulted and that any discussion quickly became impossible.
- He described the incident as evidence of rising verbal violence and pointed to a recent Le Point survey on targeting of right‑wing figures.
- Bellamy said far‑left activists, particularly from LFI, have circulated his image on social networks and that he has lodged a complaint against them.
- Authorities have not announced arrests linked to the Gare du Nord confrontation, while an earlier case involving death threats to deputy Bartolomé Lenoir led investigators to identify a suspect.