The tags “to death”, “The Mayor Support (sic) Macron” and “Zemour (sic) President” were registered on the wall of the home of the delegate mayor of Saint-Côme-du-Mont, elected modem.
Le Monde with AFP
A new aggression of a local elected representative. Bernard Denis, Mayor delegate from Saint-Côme-du-Mont, a common attached to Carentan-les-Marais (Manche), was threatened with death and two of his vehicles were burned, on the night of Monday 6 to Tuesday 7 December .
On “The wall of his property, there were infamous tags” – in this case “to death”, “The Mayor Support (sic) Macron” and “Zemour (sic) President” – told the ‘France-Press Agency (AFP) Jean-Pierre LHONNEUR, Miscellaneous Mayor Right (DVD) of Carentan-les-Marais, who went on site. “His three vehicles that were stationed in a garage adjacent to his house were burned” and only one “could be saved”.
Firefighters intervened at 2:00 am at the morning of Mr. Denis, after the fire reporting by the latter and his wife, awakened by the explosion of the burned vehicle tires. No injuries are to deplore.
All the facts was confirmed by the Attorney of the Republic of Coutances, Cyril Lacombe, AFP. A Flagrance Survey was opened for voluntary destruction by dangerous means and Mr. Denis filed a complaint Tuesday morning.
“Unacceptable acts”
m. Denis, 65 years old, is a member of the centrist party of the modem and support of the President of the Republic. His name has recently been cited in a Manche press article, as a member of the local support committee in Emmanuel Macron, created for the re-election of the latter for 2022. In the last regional elections, Bernard Denis was also figured. on the Normandy list of the Republic (LRM).
In a press release and a tweet, the prefect of the Channel, Frédéric Perissat, brought “all his support” to the delegate mayor of Saint-Côme-du-Mont, “victim of a voluntary fire and graffiti on his Hate home denouncing his political commitment “. The representative of the State denounced “unacceptable acts”. “Such behaviors contrary to the values of our democracy and the Republic will be fought with the greatest firmness,” he continues.
Several local elected officials, including the Senator of the Socialist Party (PS), Jean-Michel Houllegatte, the department’s DVD (DVD), Jean Morin, or the Republicans (LR), Philippe Gosselin, also denounced This aggression. The latter estimated, in a tweet, that it “is cowardly to take off an elected representative of the Republic”.
@ lanene50 @ prefecture50
Scandal and emotion after #making #Saintcome.
It’s cowardly from it … https://t.co/tbeleuarehfs (@philippe gosselin)
The AMF wants to strengthen the protection of elected officials victims of violence
At the end of November, it is the car of the Mayor Lr of Briançon, Arnaud Murgia, who had been burned. The Gap’s prosecutor’s Office had followed a clogged investigation for “voluntary fire destruction and dangerous means”. A deputy mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), was the victim of a knife aggression in early October.
While verbal and physical violence and aggression continues to grow in the field, the new President of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), David Lisnard, asked 30 November, that the association can be carried away during elected aggression, in order to give more weight to the procedure.
In early November, the association and the Federation of Assistance Associations for Victims, France Victims, also signed a framework agreement in order to “put in place a close collaboration” and “take charge of the local mayors and elected officials which are subject to physical and verbal violence “.