Hundreds of people gathered Thursday afternoon in front of the town hall of Signes, in tribute to "Jeannot", the mayor of the village of Var, died in opposition to a debris debris wild.
Jean-Mathieu Michel, "for us, it was above all Jeannot.No need to praise, to tell the course of his life ... We all knew him," said in a brief speech the first deputy of the town, Alain Reichardt, about the chief magistrate of the town since 1983. Hundreds of inhabitants of this Provencal village, relatives, but also the firefighters in uniform or local elected officials paid tribute to him, before the celebration of Funeral Friday morning.
Funeral in the presence of Jacqueline Gourault
At this ceremony, which will be attended by the Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Jacqueline Gourault, and the Senate Speaker, Gerard Larcher, Jean-Mathieu Michel will be awarded the Legion of Honor posthumously, announced his first deputy .
The edile died Monday at age 76, overthrown by a pickup truck he wanted to verbalize the occupants who had just thrown rubble along a road. On Wednesday, the driver of the van, a 23-year-old bricklayer, was indicted for "manslaughter" and placed under judicial control. According to the first elements of the investigation, this death, which moved the entire political class up to the President of the Republic, would be accidental.