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The heavy price of Alsatian elected officials facing Covid-19

2020-04-07T18:57:30.280Z


Several mayors and deputies from the Far East have been infected with the virus. The fault of the electoral campaign, denounce certain elected officials.


The death of the mayor of Saint-Louis, 3rd city of Haut-Rhin, facing Basel, aroused a wave of emotion in the Haut-Rhin. At 75, Jean-Marie Zoellé had just been re-elected triumphantly in the first round. "We should have expected this bastard", he had confided, three weeks ago, to the newspaper L'Alsace .

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“We all wanted to postpone the mayor's installation. Jean-Marie had been called to order by the prefect. Fortunately, the Prime Minister has decided, ” says Pascale Schmidiger, still very saddened by this disappearance. Vice-president of the departmental council, she finds herself “at the top of the table” , while waiting for the establishment of the new team. Ironically, Jean-Luc Reitzer, who has been in intensive care for four weeks, is the member for Saint-Louis-Altkirch…

In Mulhouse, with Lara Million, we got involved in the field. Half of our list was sick.

Patricia Schillinger, Senator LREM

"The Assembly has nine or ten patients," notes the president of the Haut-Rhin departmental council, Brigitte Klinkert. At his request, the flags are flown at half-mast in front of the departmental hotel and in front of the

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Source: lefigaro

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