In Saint-Gilles, hamlet of 110 inhabitants located in the south of the Indre, the mayor namespike Groen. As he tells him himself, this very American name was given by his parents, not in tribute to the director Spike Lee, but with reference to the dog of the cartoon the razmoket, called Spike in the original version (Hubert en VF ) It’s a curious start in life. The suite is quite original too.
Elected in the first round of the municipal elections of 2020 at the age of 19, this Franco-Dutch with red-shaped bicycle handlebars becomes the second youngest mayor in France. Without label at the time, he has joined, since, to the Republicans – this in order to appear on a list on the right, which will fail in the regional elections. He has also been created a departmental support committee in Eric Zemmour. His idol. Between the announcement of the presidential election of the far-right polemist, Tuesday, November 30, and the meeting he will give to Villepinte, this Sunday, December 5th, the young man drinks whey right now.
The threat of the tutelage
Originally from the frieze, in the north of the Netherlands, Spike Groen was 8 years old when he arrived with his mother in Saint-Gilles, where his grandparents had a country house. Ten years later, while preparing a literary baccalaureate in Argenton-sur-Creuse, he gives a stop at his schooling to set up a tourist company. Spike Groen is young, but he loves old: he buys about sixty old cars, in the idea of renting them. The health crisis will hop its project.
His election at the town hall of Saint-Gilles coincides with this period. The outgoing mayor, Daniel Laforêt, did not want to represent himself. No candidate had declared himself and the threat of passing under the supervision of the prefecture weighed on the municipality. “I had to do something,” explain the Mayor, who continues to live with his mother, herself municipal councilor. One of his first decisions? Fix a blue-white-red flag on the outside portal of the town hall.
Its rallying to generation Z, the youth movement of Eric Zemmour, has somewhat surprised locally. The bas-berry is not really known to be a land of insecurity. “There is no rodeo in Saint-Gilles”, confirms the elected representative. Immigrants, perhaps? “No, except us, Dutch and English, who bought houses. But it’s different. We are not in a communitarian approach.” Anguished by a hypothetical progression of political Islam, Spike Groen N ‘ is not “racist”, he still marries, and wants it for the presence, in his family, of a black aunt resulting from the adoption, “from the Dominican Republic”.
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