Lille (AFP)
The mayor of Maing (North) lodged a complaint on Tuesday, claiming that he had been threatened by a man from the community of travelers who was cutting off the barriers of a plot of land to install caravans, it was reported. aedile.
"One does not have to touch the mayors in the exercise of their functions," Philippe Baudrin told AFP, confirming information from the Voix du Nord. "We must respect the property and the people".
According to his story, he was called at mid-day by residents who saw caravans trying to settle on common ground, whose access is blocked by padlocks, chains and gates.
Intervening to prevent them, he was slapped by a woman and a man who was trying to cut the fence, brandished the chain saw in his direction and punched him.
There is no reception area for travelers in this town of 4,100 inhabitants. According to the incurable saying "in the center", "the law does not impose on us, it is a competence of the agglomeration". He lodged a complaint for assault and battery, degradation of public property and death threats. The caravans are distributed and according to the Voix du Nord, the police have not found a chainsaw.
In a statement, the deputy RN of the constituency Sebastien Chenu gave him his "support", claiming to want to introduce a bill "to toughen the sentences of those who attack elected officials".
In early August, the death of the mayor of Signes (Var) of Jean-Mathieu Michel at age 76, overturned, accidentally according to the first elements of the investigation, by a van which he wanted to verbalize the occupants who had just thrown rubble along of a road, had raised a wave of indignation.
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