The letter was forwarded to the technical and scientific police for analysis. The minister has not yet commented.
Was there an attempt to poison Gérald Darmanin? On July 24, the postal sorting center in Longvic, near Dijon, discovered a letter that seemed suspicious. It was addressed to the resigning Minister of the Interior as well as to the town hall of Roubaix (North) and covered in racial insults and threats. Post office employees alerted the technical and scientific police, who recovered the suspicious letter for analysis, confirms TF1 this Sunday, July 28. According to the first tests carried out by an NRBC-E unit, responsible for nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical or explosive analyses, traces of a powder slightly positive for the plague were found.
A false positive considered
According to the Côte-d’Or prefecture, the result could be “a false positive”, reports the local branch of France 3. This is why the Pasteur Institute was mandated to carry out additional analyses. For the moment, the author of the unstamped letter has not been identified and the minister has not reacted. The Dijon prosecutor’s office has nevertheless announced that it has opened a judicial investigation for public insult, for the insults scribbled on the letter. The territorial crime division is in charge of the investigation.
The Pasteur Institute reminds us that the plague is a fatal disease. It can be transmitted by bites or by droplets of saliva emitted by an infected person. When you are infected, you must take antibiotics early, otherwise the treatment will not be effective.