The LR mayor of Bron, Jérémie Bréaud, was threatened, insulted, and his car stoned, Wednesday evening, at the end of a meeting.

Elected last June, the councilor devotes part of his action to the fight against drug trafficking.

He has already been threatened with beheading on several occasions.

At the microphone of Europe 1, he recounts his aggression and reaffirms his desire to "reconquer certain territories".

TESTIMONY

Insults, threats and throwing projectiles.

Four months after being threatened for the first time with beheading in a tag on a construction fence, the mayor of Bron, in the Lyon suburbs, Jérémie Bréaud (LR), was again the target of an attack.

This time, it was at the end of a meeting that the violence was committed, as the city councilor tells at the microphone of Europe 1. Wednesday evening, "we were warned that a car was in the process of get stoned. We quickly suspected that it must have been ours, that of the city. "

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"A can, pebbles, pieces of wood…"

Jérémie Bréaud and the other participants in the meeting then go to the said parking lot and find themselves in front of a group "of ten people in their twenties".

And it is there "that there was a surge of threats, in particular physical, insults and throwing projectiles", reports the LR mayor of Bron who decided to file a complaint.

"I saw a can, pebbles, pieces of wood pass over our heads…"

If he did not have time to be afraid "in the heat of the

moment

", the mayor admits

a posteriori 

that these are not "easy times to live".

But it also reveals the effectiveness of his action, he says.

"It means that everything that we put in place since the municipal election [against drug trafficking] works. We embarrass an extreme minority of people with the joint operations between the municipal and national police that we do regularly." 

A month after the last threat of beheading against the mayor, Jérémie Bréaud reaffirms his intention to undermine drug trafficking in his city.

"We are not going to be intimidated, we refuse to be submissive, we will continue to regain certain lost territories," he said at the microphone of Europe 1.

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"Intolerable violence"

This new assault sparked a wave of emotion among right-wing politicians.

"Such violence is intolerable and cannot go unanswered," said Senate President LR Gérard Larcher.

"There is no point in deploring the wildness of society as long as there is no implacable criminal response," party leader Christian Jacob said on Twitter, while LR group boss in the Assembly Damien Abad asked the government "for strong and concrete actions so that the elected representatives of the Nation can be protected".

Total support for the mayor of #Bron, @JeremieBreaud, cowardly attacked yesterday.

His courageous action to ensure the safety of his fellow citizens must be saluted.

There is no point in bemoaning the enslavement of society until there is a relentless criminal response.

- Christian JACOB (@ ChJacob77) February 25, 2021

After the first threat of beheading on October 22, less than a week after the murder of history and geography professor Samuel Paty, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin offered protection to the elected official.

But this close guard has, according to Jérémie Bréaud, never been set up.