"Mayors attacked: authority trampled"

Many outgoing elected officials did not represent themselves in the last municipal elections. The organization of the poll, turned upside down by the appearance of the coronavirus, monopolized the attention so much that the essential cause of their defection went unnoticed. However, the violent death of the mayor of Signes (Var), in August 2019, had outraged France.

This is how it is today. Even he, the mayor, crowned with his title of first magistrate of the municipality on the evening of his victory, girded with his tricolor scarf, devoted day and night to his citizens, called for help at the slightest embarrassment around the corner, is insulted, pushed around, hit. The polls rank him at the top of the preferred elected officials of the French, but the facts are there. Since the start of the year, 233 assaults have been recorded. Recently, the mayor of a village in La Manche, who asked campers not to light a fire near a pine forest, received a shower of blows. However, it was the blow the next day that hurt him the most: his assailant

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