Stéphanie Daumin, PCF mayor of Chevilly-Larue (Val-de-Marne) has been the victim of threats and intimidation since she reported drug trafficking in her community. His 14-year-old son was even assaulted by a stranger as he was returning to the family home. The chosen one explains with emotion this escalation of violence, just like his colleague from Ile-Saint-Denis, Mohamed Gnabaly, whose portal of the home was covered with swastikas.
Poignant testimony of Bernard Denis, Mayor MoDem of the village of 500 inhabitants of Saint-Côme-du-Mont (Manche), who was the target of aggressors at his own night home (tagged walls, vehicles and new house under construction burned down) In the run-up to the presidential elections, the reason could be the support of the elected to the outgoing president Emmanuel Macron.
In Caen the permanence of the Socialist Party of Calvados was ransacked by a group of demonstrators who broke into the premises to protest against the use of 49.3 used by the Government of Manuel Valls to pass the Labor law of the minister Myriam El Khomri. On the spot, Louis Mexandeau, former deputy of the department and former socialist minister, notes with emotion and anger the damage.
Noël Mamère, mayor of Bègles and deputy of the Greens, was violently pushed by hunters, as he was coming out of an electoral meeting in Arcachon. He reacts to this aggression and directly attacks the leaders of the hunting world.
Mayors and local elected officials are increasingly faced with incivilities from their fellow citizens. In Calvados about twenty mayors follow a training course given by the regional negotiators of the Calvados Gendarmerie Group, themselves trained by the GIGN. A total of about 300 elected officials of the department are gradually taking this training.