Sylvain Poirrier, mayor of Arthezé and member of the French Communist Party, found an anonymous, threatening letter in the mail this Wednesday. “In a town of 355 inhabitants, where everyone knows each other, where we work to live together without taking political labels into account, such a letter is not trivial,” he insists.

Since these threats, SylvainPoirrier has received, among others, the support of Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, the senator of Sarthe.