An investigation for death threats was opened following a letter, containing a pistol cartridge, received Tuesday, August 3 by a regional elected and mayor of a municipality in the Landes, Hagetmau, AFP learned from the prosecution. from Mont-de-Marsan.
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The postal mail, containing the 9 mm caliber pistol cartridge and a paper with the handwritten mention "
collabo
", was received Tuesday morning in the town hall of Hagetmau, addressed to the mayor and regional councilor (MoDem) of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Pascale Requenna.
An investigation for threat of death on a person holding public authority was opened and entrusted to the Mont-de-Marsan gendarmerie, with scientific and technical police resources, said the prosecution, confirming information from the daily site.
South West
.
No claim was received and no particular track was initially favored.
The mayor targeted by threats for the second time in a few days
This is the second time in a few days that Pascale Requenna has been the target of threats: at the end of July, her name, highlighted, appeared on sheets stapled to dummy guillotines in wood and cardboard, about 2 meters high, discovered in four municipalities in the Landes, including Hagetmau. These lists of names were accompanied by a leaflet entitled "
prohibition of compulsory health pass and vaccination
". Pascale Requenna then lodged a complaint, as she did again on August 3.
A 50-year-old man, with a clean criminal record, was arrested a few days later, identified through the use of video protection images.
He had indicated that he had acted alone, and wanted by these guillotines "to
alert the mayors concerned of the violation of fundamental freedoms by government decisions
" in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.
But he regretted that the symbol was "
badly perceived
" and assured that he "
never had the intention or the conscience to threaten the elected officials with death
".
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Placed under judicial supervision, with a ban on contacting the victims and participating in a demonstration on the public highway, the suspect will be tried in October. Several elected officials, including deputies, have in recent weeks been the subject of death threats and attempted intimidation for their support for the government's vaccination and health pass strategy, leading the Paris prosecutor's office to open an investigation on July 20. .
