2023-06-09 20:05:40
The controversy is still alive. The mayor of Carnac (Morbihan), taken to task after the destruction of menhirs in a commercial area of his town, indicated this Friday that his home had been placed under police protection following threats and insults.
“We will find you, we know your address, we will set you on fire…”: Olivier Lepick says he has received dozens of messages of insults and threats on social networks, as well as his wife and children, since that the controversy around the destruction of the menhirs broke out. He was planning Friday evening to file a complaint after the “hate dump” that was unleashed against him.
An amateur archaeologist from Carnac said on June 2 in a blog post that about forty small menhirs had recently been destroyed in a construction site of a DIY store. The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Drac) of Brittany declared that the archaeological interest of the menhirsdiscovered during excavations in 2015 in two old fences covered with coppice, was not established.
A media frenzy, according to the town hall
According to Olivier Lepick, “damage was committed last night” on the site of the construction site, illustrating the violent turn taken by the controversy around the menhirs. “The sub-prefect, on his own initiative, decided to set up surveillance of my house and I admit that that reassured me,” said the mayor of Carnac. The gendarmerie carries out regular rounds around his home, as for the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins after the fire at his home, he explains.
“People think that we have made a DIY store in the alignments when it is a craft and commercial area which is 3 km away, in which there is already a gas station, the recycling center and a supermarket”, he insists. The mayor recognizes that “there was an administrative error” but “this dumpling is not the fact of the municipality” which respected the legislation according to him. “This area should have been the subject of an archaeological prescription, which was not the case, so everyone agreed to issue the building permit, including the DRAC”, he believes.
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