TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
Deeply shocked by the events of Monday afternoon, Francis Boy, mayor of Saint-Ybars in Ariege, announced Wednesday at the microphone of Europe 1 that he will not stand for a third term. "It's the drop of water, I'm saturated," he says, bitter.
Two days earlier, he had been called to separate a woman in her twenties from her mother, who was pursuing her with a knife and threatening to kill her. The apostle was slightly injured on the arm trying to separate the two women.
"The wound is superficial but it's the gesture that marks me"
"Until now, I had been a victim of verbal violence but never of physical violence," he says. Upset, he deplores the escalation of attacks suffered recently by the mayors of France.
The summer was particularly marked by the attack of Jean-Marc Bergia, Mayor of Saubens, Haute-Garonne and Jean-Mathieu Michel, Mayor of Signes, hit by a van. Last year alone, the Ministry of the Interior recorded 361 verbal or physical attacks on local elected officials.
"The wound is superficial but it is the gesture that marks," says Francis Boy. He spoke with Christophe Castaner the next day to express his weariness. "We are unarmed generals," he insists. "We have power but no way to apply it, we are sometimes clueless."