We see everything during an election campaign.
The traditional display on the public highway was carried out on May 31 throughout France, the launch day of the official campaign for regional and departmental elections.
Often, posters disappear or are vandalized.
But what happened in the Alpes-Maritimes has a little something unusual.
Sunday evening, posters were torn off in front of the town hall and at the parking lot of the Place de la Liberté, in the town of Cap-d'Ail, in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Namely those of the candidate of the National Rally to the departmental, in the canton of Beausoleil, Mickaël Rosellini, also opposition advisor in the city.
The work of a competitor?
Not really.
CCTV footage of the city identified the perpetrator of this mischief.
And surprise, it is the candidate himself, as told by our colleagues from Nice Matin.
A "communication error"
In Paris, the candidate pleads "the error of communication on the posters" and ensures that his gesture was "misinterpreted".
But he did not wish to tell us more, simply giving us "an appointment on June 20".
Still, this little self-tearing did not make everyone laugh. Starting with the mayor of Cap-d'Ail, Xavier Beck, also a candidate in the same elections. “Posting on signs and locations provided for this purpose is guaranteed by law and must be protected. Article 17 of the law of July 29, 1881 punishes those who have removed, torn, covered or altered the electoral posters of the fine provided for contraventions of the 3rd class, he explains to Nice Matin. The municipal police carried out an examination of the images of the CCTV cameras to find the perpetrator (s). These images revealed that the person in charge was none other than the candidate concerned. The national gendarmerie was seized of the facts so that it could be established that freedom of expression was not hindered in Cap-d'Ail. "