In this small town in Val-d’Oise, the inhabitants, with the support of the mayor, scared the occupants of a slum. The prefecture condemns this action and justice is entered.
by Julia Pascual
The last time we talked about Villeron in the national media was twelve years ago. The small town of Val-d’Oise had been “cut from the world” for three days due to snowfall. If Villeron has seen the press disembark again, in recent days, this is to tell this time how some of its inhabitants have hunted, on Sunday, February 5, the occupants of a camp installed since the fall of 2022 in the wood that borde The village, not far from the ruins of a castle of the 18th century e century.
A hundred Roma had formed a slum made of wooden huts in this town where Marine Le Pen has come to the top of the presidential election and which Dominique Kudla (without label) has been running, since 2014. The councilor is today pointed out for supporting and accompanied the rally which led to the expulsion and destruction of the slum. “The mayor’s mission is to be the guarantor of the rule of law. We are completely and unambiguously disapproved of what happened,” said prefect Philippe Court. An investigation was opened to specify, in particular, “whether or not there has been violence to people as well as degradations of goods”, announces the Pontoise prosecutor’s office.
At the same time, three of the former occupants of the slum filed a complaint on February 7 for “violence committed in a meeting”. According to the minutes consulted by MO12345lemonde, they explain that on February 5, around 200 people demonstrated in front of the camp until a group of around forty of them invective, throws them notably bottles glass and make them flee by leaving most of their personal effects behind them.
m. Kudla now refuses to speak to the press. A year ago, in the Journal of the Agglomeration of Roissy-Pays-de-France, this 72-year-old pensioner was described by “his outspokenness and his energy”. He said he had Jean Jaurès and Louis Pasteur as models, and for motto “stay straight in his boots”. It is now a low profile. In the gazette of his commune, he had vilified “the excesses of destructive nomadism of the Roma community” or even a “population without faith or law”, whose wandering is encouraged by “Europe”. “Nothing but evoking their names, my hair bristles,” he wrote again.
“It is a commune that welcomes”
In Villeron, the bad publicity made to the city disturbs, but the councilor keeps its supports. An employee of the town hall, who wishes to keep anonymity, believes that Mr. Kudla is “really a good mayor”, who has brought the transformation of the town, from 700 to 2,000 inhabitants in a handful of years.
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