TESTIMONY
On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, said Sunday he was "disgusted" after racist insults and death threats against the mayor of Givors near Lyon, Mohamed Boudjellaba. The city councilor, who won the municipal election at the end of June in this city of 20,000 inhabitants, received an anonymous letter riddled with threats and racist insults. Deeming himself "shocked", he posted some excerpts on Twitter on Saturday and filed a complaint. On Europe 1 Monday, he told of his disgust.
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"Mr. Mayor, dirty bougnole, we are going to kill you. We are going to grill you like a merguez. Your house will be booming", quotes the mayor of Givors, reporting the racist remarks mentioned in the letter he received. "On four pages, it's a nameless vomit", he indignantly, attacking these "shadow people who stir up hatred and who do not accept that I am mayor". "I am a French citizen who has political responsibilities", then defends Mohamed Boudjellaba.
you know how it looks like a bomb in a house, it goes boom ”
In all, 4 pages of slander, racial hatred and threats. @ Le_Progres @ BFMLyon @ F3Rhone_Alpespic.twitter.com / Zb4mv6ILPV
Faced with such attacks, the mayor admits to being discouraged. "Do I want to last six years? I don't know," he asks himself. "It's creepy to think that people or someone took the time to do this."
"My arms are falling out"
Mohamed Boudjellaba thus wonders about the reasons which pushed the authors of the letter to act. "When you try every day to fight for the streets to be clean, to beautify the city, to try to bring businesses back to your city then a disgusting mail falls to you, my arms fall to me", he says. . "My political action cannot be measured. I've been here for seven weeks. I didn't think it was going to happen so soon."