2023-05-17 13:25:05
The mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, Yannick Morez, who resigned after being targeted by arson, once again felt on Wednesday that the state did not stand by his side during his hearing at the Senate Law Commission. “We found ourselves simply destitute, abandoned by the state services,” he said to the elected officials.
During his hearing, the city councilor detailed the course of events that led to his “physical and verbal” aggression and the threats he may have received since the announcement of the relocation of a reception center for asylum seekers. asylum in his commune. “The first of the difficulties is that the State did not wish to communicate [sur ce projet]. He left this charge to the municipality”, he still judged. “The prefect said that he had organized public meetings when he did not organize any”.
“I thought about it with my wife and my children”
Yannick Morez described the extent of the intimidation received. “It started with different articles, threats, intimidation. We alerted the gendarmerie whose response was: freedom of expression, nothing can be done “. “I received despicable leaflets (…) We detailed the threats in a letter, the prosecutor never answered us”, he continued, deploring a context of violence which, according to him, is intensifying.
“When we see the significant increase in attacks [visant des élus] for a year, I think that the observed figure has been greatly underestimated,” he added. Incidentally, Yannick Morez reiterated his desire to “resign and leave this city which [l]hosted 32 years ago. “It’s very difficult to live with all this.” Is his decision reversible? “I have thought about it with my wife and my children: I will not go back,” he added.
The mayor received at Matignon
Announced last week, the resignation of the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins has not yet been validated. The Minister of the Interior and Matignon have indeed asked the prefect of Loire-Atlantique not to act on this resignation yet, as long as the elected official has not met Elisabeth Borne.
The city councilor of Loire-Atlantique must be received at the end of the afternoon at Matignon.
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