After insulting an elected official, Collomb awaited for a public apology

• Thinking that his microphone was off, Gérard Collomb insulted an elected official during the municipal council on May 7.
• The mayor of Lyon apologized to him the next day but the latter has since demanded a public apology at the next municipal council.

A microphone he thought was off. Insults made against an elected majority in full city council. A video relayed on social networks and the machine got carried away. Gérard Collomb, the mayor of Lyon, tried to extinguish the fire which he himself started on May 7, the date of the last municipal council in videoconference .

While Myriam Picot calls for respect for the mayors of the boroughs from the mayor of Lyon @gerardcollomb ... The latter, twice the insult of conne micro open in full city council. #VisioFail pic.twitter.com/IFd46csr3Q

But his apologies, sent in a press release the following day at noon, were hardly convincing. Starting with the main interested party, Myriam Picot, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Lyon, who has since demanded a public apology at the next municipal council.

"An autocratic drift linked to a usury of power"

"This manifestation of irascibility, coupled with a contempt displayed for all those who express a divergent opinion, demonstrates a nature which is hardly compatible with the qualities which the exercise of democratic life requires and the serenity which must imperatively preside over the managing a major health crisis like the one we are going through, ”responded the elected official.

While Myriam Picot criticized him for not having concerted the mayors of boroughs on the decision not to reopen the markets on April 8, Gérard Collomb got carried away, dropping this sentence: "But what a con".

"This slippage and others observed throughout the city council testify to an autocratic drift linked to a usury of power", underlines the group Progressistes et Républicains to which Myriam Picot belongs, qualifying these remarks as "condemnable", "unacceptable "And" not at all up to the responsibilities of the mayor of Lyon.

"This word escaped me"

"His reproaches (…) while we were at the peak of the pandemic and our hospitals were overloaded seemed to me so out of step with the urgency of the situation that this word escaped me", justified the mayor of Lyon in a press release sent to the press. And to add: "Following the Municipal Council, I obviously apologize to Myriam Picot - whom I wanted to reach by phone - for this aside which was unsuitable and which does not correspond to what I think of this elected ”, to which he notably entrusted the Métropole with the delegation to culture.

"This episode does not reflect the content of the City Council placed rather under the sign of a desire to fight together against the pandemic beyond any partisan distinction," he concluded. Without preventing the wave of criticism from continuing to surge.

3 hours after the sexist attack on Myriam Picot NO reaction from the macronists? @MarleneSchiappa pic.twitter.com/vb22HWUA4o

#COLLOMB no longer has any political legitimacy in Lyon. We massively voted against him in the first round of municipal and metropolitan on March 15, 2020. These insults speak volumes about his mode of governance and this is only one aspect. Support @MyriamPicot, from the Lyon bar.

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