A sixty-year-old was sentenced to a suspended fine of 1000 euros on Wednesday by the Bordeaux Criminal Court for assaulting the mayor of his town of Bassanne (Gironde), considering having been "left
to his own devices
" during the floods last February .
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The man was found guilty of "
death threat
", "
contempt
" and "
violence against a person holding public authority
".
He was also sentenced to one year of ineligibility.
On February 8, while floods had affected Bassanne for several days, a town of just over a hundred inhabitants located 60 km south-east of Bordeaux, the sixty-year-old had contacted the mayor, Richard Gauthier, 51 years old. , to ask him for help.
"
A punch in the face
"
The mayor had gone to his constituency. There, he "
was taken to task and insulted
" by the inhabitant who struck him "
a punch in the face
" while Mr. Gauthier was in front of the window of the person concerned, according to the gendarmerie. The retiree, 80% disabled, had been stuck for four days without electricity in his home. "
It was very hard for him to endure this situation and to remain polite with Mr. Gauthier given the enormous medical vulnerability in which he finds himself
", pleaded his lawyer, master Dufranc. Richard Gauthier, injured in the eye, had suffered from a total incapacity for work (ITT) of two days.
