2023-08-04 21:56:04
A 50-year-old woman was sentenced on Friday August 4 by the Grenoble Criminal Court to a two-month suspended prison sentence for the assault two weeks earlier on the mayor of the town of Chantepérier, in Isère. The altercation between the defendant and the mayor at the end of the municipal council on July 20 had given rise to a temporary interruption of work of two days for the elected official, marked by bruises and hematomas. The prosecutor argued for “a sentence that makes sense”requiring six months in prison with a probationary suspension of two years and a ban on contact with the mayor, Christelle Meheut.
Today the mayor “the question arises of continuing his mandate”said Benjamin Djeffal, his lawyer, who clarified that his client had seen “prescribe anxiolytics” et “was afraid to go out”. The elected official was not present at the trial. “The defendant had come to the city council to fight it out”said Mr. Djeffal, while the latter’s lawyer, Arnaud Adelise, defended a gesture ” spontaneous “, “not premeditated”. “It lasted fifteen seconds, I grabbed her but I didn’t slap her”defended the accused.
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The subject of the dispute was a municipal decree prohibiting access to vehicles on a road in the town. The conflict has been fueled by the enmity between the two women, who have known each other for forty years. The defendant, whose criminal record is clean, presented, in tears, her apologies. The suspended prison sentence was accompanied by an order to pay 1,500 euros to the mayor for non-pecuniary damage, and a symbolic 1 euro as damages for the association of mayors and deputies of Isère , a “warning sentence”warned the president of the court.
On July 7, the minister responsible for local authorities, Dominique Faure, detailed to the Monde a plan of 5 million euros aimed at strengthening the protection of elected officials, without however managing to convince them. The first measures of this plan were announced shortly after the arson attack on the home of the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique), in particular the creation of 3,400 “attacks on elected officials” referents in police stations and gendarmeries, as well as the reinforcement of the “elected alarm” system.
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