Hervé NEAU, Mayor of the fourth commune of the Loire-Atlantic department, killed the town hall. The elected official had been the target of malicious couriers.
Le Monde with AFP
His suicide in the premises of the town hall of Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) alerted the investigators. An investigation for “moral harassment” was opened after the suicide, by hanging, the Mayor Hervé Neau, who had recently received malicious letters, we learned, on Monday, February 14, to the Prosecutor of the Republic of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul.
The body of Hervé Neau, mayor of this town of 42,000 inhabitants of the metropolis of Nantes, had been discovered Friday inside the town hall. “In view of the first elements gathered throughout Friday,” Mr. Gaudeul said he had “esteemed necessary to open a survey of the Head of Moral Harassment, confirming information from the regional press.
Defamatory mail
In addition, the Prosecutor, furthermore, entrusted this investigation into the territorial management of the judicial police in Nantes, but recalls “not being able to communicate at this stage on the content of this investigation”. On Friday, the magistrate had made known that the suicide of the elected was “no doubt”. The Mayor of Rezé has “letters for his loved ones and instructions for funeral”.
m. Gaudel also stated that the Mayor’s office leader contacted the parquet “three days” before the facts, in order to point out that the Edile, and “several members of his entourage”, had recently received malicious mail ” relative, for the most part, to his private life and can be considered defamatory “.
The Edile had not filed a complaint, had reported the Prosecutor Friday. Hervé Neau, 58, had been elected Mayor of Rezé in July 2020, after driving the “Rezé Citizen” list.
No controversial records, struggling the municipality or engaging the community, did not come to tarnish Mr. Naue’s action, insured to the world Pierre Quénea, elected from Rezé and friend of the deceased. The person describes the Edile as a “sensitive and devoted man, passionate about the public thing”. “Someone solid, who took his task with a lot of enthusiasm and intelligence,” he complete, adding: “He had endorsed the costume within a very lively collective.”