• The mayor of La Bouëxière (Ille-et-Vilaine) was insulted and beaten on Sunday June 12 while he was talking to the managers of a circus.

  • Parked on a field belonging to the municipality, the circus did not have permission to settle there.

  • Two complaints were lodged with the gendarmerie.

    One from the mayor, the other from a female member of the circus.

This Monday morning, Stéphane Piquet is quite upset.

On Sunday, the mayor of La Bouëxière (Ille-et-Vilaine) was called by residents of his small town located east of Rennes, who were surprised to see a circus settling in a field belonging to the municipality , as revealed by Ouest-France.

After his permanence at the office of the legislative elections, the elected official therefore went there with an assistant to ask for explanations.

And it didn't go well at all.

The mayor explains that he was spat on, before he received "a monumental slap" and someone hit him violently on the head when he had turned around.

“I took a huge punch in the face.

I was stunned, I thought I was going to fall, ”explains the mayor, joined by

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The assistant in shock

The owners of this circus of the Zavatta family would have explained having received authorization to settle on the plot from the farmer who operates it.

“But it doesn't belong to him, it belongs to the municipality.

And it is not at all suitable, there is no water or electricity, ”says Stéphane Piquet.

To prevent the situation from degenerating a little more, it was his assistant who intervened.

This Monday morning, she is still in shock.

“After the blow received, he was livid, staggering.

We left being insulted by all names, ”explains the elected official.

A complaint from each side

Called, the gendarmes arrived on the spot and took the mayor's complaint.

“The person in question has been heard”, promises the gendarmerie, which specifies that a complaint has been filed by a woman from the circus for alleged racist insults.

The Rennes prosecutor's office confirms and explains "that an investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of these facts".

“It's madness!

They try to turn the situation around and pretend to be victims.

But it is an elected official who was targeted and beaten.

And they can leave like that, without being worried?

They are scoundrels”, annoys the mayor, who says he is “abandoned” by the institution.

His assistant was waiting on Monday to be heard to file a complaint.

As she returned to the edge of the plot to see how the situation was evolving, the elected official was attacked by a woman who allegedly insulted and threatened her.

“I feel a little bitter today.

I didn't go there to hit people but to ask them to leave.

They were 20 in front of us, ”says the mayor.

At noon, the Zavatta circus had left, without anyone knowing when it was going to set up.

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