Jacques Serais, edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez 6:34 p.m., October 01, 2022

Boris Venon, deputy mayor in the commune of Les Mureaux, resigned following several death threats and homophobic and racist insults.

The elected official filed a complaint for eleven assaults in two years, threatening "his physical integrity" as well as that of his family.

During the last municipal council of the city of Mureaux in the Yvelines, Wednesday evening, the deputy mayor Boris Venon took the radical decision to resign.

According to him, this decision is constrained and forced by a situation which was becoming untenable in the face of the growing insecurity he feels today. 

"For two years, I have suffered eleven attacks. Myself or my family, we have felt threatened even in our physical integrity, where for twelve years, I have never known an episode of this nature. I feel been criticized for being who I am," he explains.

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"These episodes, and even more the latest, were marked by verbal violence, physical threats going as far as death threats and homophobic and racist insults", insists the chosen one.

He reports the insults he has heard: "'The white man is leaving my town! We are at home here!', that's what I heard myself say before I was chased to the front of my home or threatened with dead."

Boris Venon affirms it, "yes, citizens of European origin can be the object of racism and it is a man whose entire political career is on the left who tells you so". 

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Boris Venon says goodbye to his town today, in which he has lived for fourteen years.

A difficult decision for his former colleagues from the municipality, who do not question the word of their friend.

"This is not a problem specific to Les Mureaux", insists all the same Dieynaba Diop, deputy mayor of Les Mureaux and spokesperson for the national federation of the Socialist Party.

"This must question us collectively, because it is our Republic that we are attacking."

The increase in violence against elected officials continues, a phenomenon strongly condemned by the spokesperson.

Dieynaba Diop is today asking for administrative and judicial reactions to respond to Boris Venon's complaint.

"Sanctions must be imposed. Eleven assaults is not nothing."