Lyon (AFP)
The LR mayor of Bron (metropolis of Lyon), Jérémie Bréaud, announced Thursday that he had been the subject of insults, physical threats and throwing projectiles the night before, while his vehicle was stoned.
“The municipality car in which I was traveling with my team was smashed in a parking lot. A group of ten individuals in their twenties then insulted us and threw projectiles at us, like cans, stones and pieces of wood ", Jérémie Bréaud told AFP.
The first magistrate of this town of 40,000 inhabitants of eastern Lyon published on his Facebook page a photo of the vehicle with the windows broken and the door pressed.
The incident occurred while he was traveling with one of his deputies and his chief of staff to a neighborhood in his town.
Elected in June, Mr. Bréaud placed his action under the sign of security, with a massive increase in the number of municipal police and the reinforced deployment of video surveillance.
"We disturb those who respect nothing and who act with impunity. We hamper drug trafficking," he said.
Last month, tags threatening death Jérémie Bréaud had been discovered on the fence of a construction site in the city, in the same neighborhood as others discovered on October 22, which already threatened the elected official with beheading.
These threats in October had led the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin to offer protection to the elected, less than a week after the assassination of the history professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
"I never saw anything coming. Maybe it will be discussed again today. I let (the ministry) do its work", comments Mr. Bréaud today after these new incidents.
On the CNews channel, the deputy president of the LREM group at the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, denounced "intolerable violence".
"The penal response must be at the level with regard to the violence which is perpetrated", continued the deputy, calling for the strengthening of "the scale of sanctions".
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