2023-05-17 21:41:03
Elisabeth Borne met this Wednesday the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, Yannick Morez (DVD), who resigned after being targeted by arson and threats from the far right. A meeting at the end of which, the government said it wanted to “heighten the criminal penalties against those who attack elected officials”.
“If we have been insufficiently reactive, we will mobilize more to protect elected officials in the face of the increase in violence”, had already affirmed Élisabeth Borne, while the mayor had deplored a “lack of support from the State” at the time of his resignation.
Also on Wednesday, exactly one week after his resignation which had created an electric shock, Yannick Morez will be heard by the Senate Law Commission at 11:15 a.m. Judging “intolerable” that he was targeted by these attacks, the head of government considered it necessary to act “upstream”. “This is the meaning of the proposals that the Minister in charge of Territorial Communities, Dominique Faure, will make next week” by launching the “Centre for the analysis and fight against attacks on elected officials”, she said. This structure “will make it possible to better coordinate the response of all the actors concerned: police, justice, prefect. We are also going to strengthen the sanctions against those who attack elected officials, ”promised Elisabeth Borne.
Yannick Morez’s home was burned down in March, in connection with the hotly contested move near a kindergarten of a reception center for asylum seekers that has existed since 2016 in this commune of Loire-Atlantique.
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