Trader accused of uttering threats at town hall

A merchant from Soler (Pyrénées-Orientales), near Perpignan, was taken into police custody on Monday,

learned from the Perpignan prosecutor's office, confirming information from

.

This Tuesday, in the middle of the day, this man, suspected of having made threats, was still heard by the gendarmes.

On Saturday, Armelle Revel Fourcade (LR), the mayor of this town of some 7,800 inhabitants, indicated on her Facebook page that a merchant, manager of a night grocery store, had landed at the town hall on November 16. , “aggressive, threatening and obscene towards the officers and elected officials present”.

The man would be suspected in particular, wrote the elected official, of having indicated in particular that he wanted to “put Le Soler on fire and blood”.

According to the elected, the merchant suspected of having made threats would be the manager of an establishment which would have been notified of an administrative closure.

The grocery store is the subject of complaints from residents "for disturbing public order", and "illegal sale of tobacco".

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