Last February, a 60-year-old was stranded in his home because of the floods.
Exasperated, he attacked the mayor of his commune of Bassanne, shooting him "a punch in the face".
The Bordeaux Criminal Court has just sentenced him to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros on Wednesday.
The man was found guilty of "death threat", "contempt" and "violence against a person holding public authority".
He was also sentenced to one year of ineligibility.
Four days without electricity
On February 8, while floods had affected Bassanne for several days, a town of just over a hundred inhabitants located 60 km south-east of Bordeaux, the sixty-year-old had contacted the mayor, Richard Gauthier, 51 years old. , to ask him for help.
The mayor had gone to his constituency.
There, he "was taken to task and insulted" by the inhabitant who hit him while the chosen one was in front of the window of the person concerned, according to the gendarmerie.
The retiree, 80% disabled, had been stuck for four days without electricity in his home.
"It was very hard for him to endure this situation and to remain polite with Mr. Gauthier given the enormous medical vulnerability in which he finds himself", pleaded his lawyer, master Dufranc.
Richard Gauthier, injured in the eye, had suffered from a total incapacity for work (ITT) of two days.
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