Gérald Darmanin receives a letter in which traces of plague were discovered

The letter was forwarded to the technical police and scientific for analysis. The minister has not yet spoken.

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 outgoing Minister of the Interior and 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 suspicious mail for analysis, TF1 confirmed 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 prefecture of Côte-d'Or, the result could be “a false positive”, reports the local antenna of France 3. This is why the Pasteur Institute has been mandated to carry out additional analyses. For the moment, the author of the unstamped letter has not been identified and the minister did not react. The Dijon prosecutor's office nevertheless announced that it had 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 affected, you must take antibiotics early, otherwise the treatment will not be effective.