Hervé Neau, Mayor of the fourth municipality of the Loire-Atlantic Department, killed at the Town Hall. The elected official had been the target of malicious couriers.
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The shock, the sentence, and the sidation. Friday, February 11, the city of Rezé, a municipality of 43,000 inhabitants located three kilometers south of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), has lived “total deflagration”, according to the expression of a service manager. The lifeless body of Hervé Neau, Mayor aged 58, was discovered shortly after 6 o’clock in the morning, by a maintenance agent “in a local contiguous at his office of the City Hall”, as well as the Reported Renaud Gaudeul, Prosecutor of the Republic of Nantes.
The elected official is dead by hanging. No trace of burglary has been raised. “Suicide is no doubt: he left letters for his loved ones and instruction for funeral”, “says the Prosecutor.
The announcement of the drama left Groggy the 900 agents of the city. “Everyone is stunned, blows a frame. Hervé Neau was a very appreciated personality, hyperproop of people. Someone of pleasant and accessible, full of empathy.” A psychological cell has been put in place to support the staff and elected representatives of the community. Several hundred people participated in a rally in tribute to the deceased Friday night.
Anonymous mail targeting the Edile
In the secret of the walls of the City Hall, a “crow” poisoning the life of the mayor and his entourage in recent weeks. Internally, a few loved ones have been aware of the existence of a dozen anonymous letters targeting the Edile. Their virulence pushed the cabinet manager to pull the alarm bell. “The Mayor’s Chief of Staff had made contact with the Nantes prosecutor’s office three days ago to report the existence of these relative malicious messages, for the most part, to his private life and may be considered defamatory”, exhibit Mr. Gaudeul.
It was indicated to the employee of the mayor that he could “naturally file a complaint for these facts and that he could benefit from the strengthened follow-up system of complaints put in place in the prosecutor’s office. prosecutor. At this point, “No complaint had yet been filed”.
Former school director and associative activist, Mr. Noau had served as a citizen dialogue assistant in the previous mandate led by Socialist Gérard Allard. After resigning from the municipal council in September 2018, the interested party had then taken the head of a citizen team, anchored on the left, which was largely necessary in front of the mayor out of the second round of the election in June 2020.
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