“The tricolor scarf does not protect more than the white blouse or the uniform”, lamented Franck Louvrier, Friday, May 26, before the municipal council of La Baule-Escoublac, reports BFMTV. The city councilor of this Loire-Atlantique commune revealed that he had recently received an anonymous threatening letter. The mail contained three photos evoking the assassination of Samuel Paty, a history and geography professor beheaded in 2020, as well as the Bataclan attack, perpetrated in 2015. “The next time in La Baule? could we read on the letter accompanying the pictures.
A few weeks after the resignation of the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, in the same department, Franck Louvrier did not fail to denounce the violence of which elected officials are the target. The city councilor of Saint-Brevin, Yannick Morez, had also been the target of hate messages. “We were within range of slaps, we are within range of criminal acts that led the mayor of Saint-Brevin to resign,” said Franck Louvrier. He called for a “wake-up call” on the subject.
The event has already caused a reaction. “There is no place in the Republic for death threats,” wrote the LR president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, on Twitter, supporting the mayor “in the face of the ‘despicable’. Transport Minister Clément Beaune also showed his “full support” in the face of “countless threats”.
The Nantes police have opened an investigation.
