New assault of a mayor. An investigation into the violence on the elected official was opened after the assault of the mayor of a small city of Charentaise, who received a blow and was threatened with a stone, learned of the France-Presse (AFP) agency on Friday, June 20 with the prosecution of Angoulême.
The events occurred on Thursday morning in Vars (2,100 inhabitants), north of Angoulême, while the councilor participated in a weed operation in the center of his village with his technical services, he told the elected official to an AFP correspondent.
When the grass was undertaken in front of a 46-year-old man, already known by Justice, “he hit me when he hit me and then took a stone and wanted to break it on his head,” continued the mayor, Jean-Marc of Lustrac.
Expected psychiatric experience
A municipal police woman blocked the aggressor arm who was shouting: “Stop her place!” And then he made it release the stone, but the intervention of members of the Peloton’s surveillance of the Ruffect Gendarmerie to dominate the forties, hospitalized in a psychiatric service was needed. A psychiatric experience of the defendant must be carried out, confirmed the prosecution.
“He noticed the grass,” said Jean-Marc de Lustrac, who had already been verbally taken by this man last year, with his services.
“He wants us to leave the grass. Not only in front of his house, but throughout the neighborhood. He does not work, he listen to the slightest engine noise and rushes to the slightest noise of the brush wood,” said the mayor of France 3 regions.
“Fortunately, the Gendarmerie arrived quickly. The two gendarmes ordered him to stop, he rested his stone. They took him home to talk with him and left more beautiful. (…) They asked for reinforcement,” the elected official developed.
The mayor went to the Emergency Room of the Ruffec Hospital, where two days of ITT were prescribed, before fileing a complaint.
The mayors “on the front line to take blows”
This attack shows that the mayors “are on the front line to receive blows,” he added.
The Center for Analysis and Fight against elected officials (Calae) registered a 9.3% drop in elected officials last year, with 2,501 facts identified, or 48 per week, mainly against mayors and municipal councilors, after an increase of 13.5% in 2023.
However, these assaults play an extremely lower role in the explosion in the number of resignations of the mayors, four more times during the current mandate than between 2008 and 2014, especially due to conflicts within the municipal councils, according to a study conducted by CEVIPOF published on Thursday and carried out for the France Alkali Association (AMF).
Source: BFM TV
