Election campaign posters in Marseille. - Adrien Max / 20 Minutes

Poster war in Marseille. The two candidates on the right, Bruno Gilles (DvD) and Martine Vassal, (LR), accuse each other of an assault on poster posters, this Friday morning in Marseille.

Bruno Gilles announces "to suspend the display of his electoral campaign following repeated threats and assaults against his volunteer posters". “My poster teams have been the subject of serious and repeated threats by Martine Vassal's poster makers. One of my posters was the subject of a violent physical assault near the town hall of the 4th and 5th arrondissements, "he said in a press release.

War of press releases

A few minutes later Jean-Philippe Agresti, head of this sector's list for Martine Vassal, regretted by press release an "altercation, instigated by the provocations of the team of Mr. Gilles at the end of which our activist had to be transported to the hospital ".

He puts this aggression on the back of "difficulty in the polls and [of] lack of notoriety" and regrets "these methods of another time by Bruno Gilles which recall the worst hours of Marseille political history". Does it refer to the death of Ibrahim Ali, a young Marseillais of Comorian origin assassinated 25 years ago today for stickers of FN posters? A few days ago, Martine Vassal had filed a complaint against an activist in possession of a butter knife in her bag.

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