The Paris prosecutor‘s office reports that a police inquiry has been opened following the delivery of a severed finger to the French president’s official house.
The prosecutor’s office told CNN on Thursday that the item that was brought to the Elysee palace had “a piece of a finger, a fingertip it seems.”
It further stated that as of Monday, police had opened an investigation for a “threat of a crime or offence against an elected official.”
According to CNN station BFMTV, it is thought that the fingertip belonged to the sender.
The Elysee is the official home in Paris of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has held office since 2017.
In the past year, Macron’s government has struggled to ease public anger over a controversial pension reform plan, and then following the police killing of a teenager in the outskirts of Paris.