How to stop the spiral of attacks on local elected officials?
This worrying development had prompted the mayors of France to set up an observatory to assess the phenomenon of this violence against mayors.
The initiative was launched after a tragedy in the small Var town of Signes, where the fatal attack on the mayor in the summer of 2019 sparked a wave of indignation all over France.
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Statistics from the Ministry of the Interior show a worsening of the facts, especially during the first seven months of 2022: physical or verbal aggression, denigration, defamation on social networks... The increase is continuous
", explains David Lisnard, president of the AMF.
A multiplication of factors
Thanks to the initiative of his predecessor, François Baroin, the association of mayors had sounded the alarm and today recalls that this problem is linked to a context of
“major civic crisis”.
But what do the numbers say?
According to the latest ministerial data, the progress…
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