It was not the first time that he threatened the mayor of his town, he had even been sentenced last December for the same facts.
A 65-year-old man was brought before the Cahors prosecutor's office on Wednesday and imprisoned for "repeated and particularly worrying outrages and death threats" against the councilor of Calvignac, a village in the west of the Lot.
Up to 5 years in prison
As a legal recidivism, "he also had a ban on appearing in Calvignac, which he did not respect, thus earning him additional prosecution on this count", said in a press release Alexandre Rossi, the public prosecutor of Cahors. .
The magistrate specifies that "any attack of this kind against an elected representative of the Republic leads to prosecution marked with the greatest firmness".
The man, who will be tried on Friday, faces up to five years in prison.
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