The mayor of Saint-Brévin (Loire-Atlantique), a commune where a project for a reception center for asylum seekers (Cada) arouses strong opposition, announced Wednesday that he had sent his resignation to the prefect "for personal reasons".
"This Tuesday, May 9, I sent to the prefect of Loire-Atlantique a letter informing the latter of my wish to resign from my mandate as mayor of Saint-Brévin-les-Pins," wrote Wednesday evening Yannick Morez (DVD), on the Facebook page of the municipality. "I took this decision for personal reasons, especially following the arson attack on my home and the lack of support from the state and after a long reflection with my family," explains Yannick Morez. The mayor's home was targeted, on March 22, by a fire start, the subject of a criminal investigation.
"I have full confidence in my team, a competent team (...) who will continue to act in the service of our city and its inhabitants. After 15 years of presence in the City Council, including 6 years as mayor, I leave confident in the future, "concludes the resigning mayor. Asked by AFP Wednesday evening, the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique was not able to confirm having received the resignation of Yannick Morez.
"There was never the slightest problem"
Saint-Brévin is, for several months, the center of tensions following a project to move to the commune of a CADA. Several demonstrations against this relocation project have been organized there, the last at the end of April, at the call of the extreme right, in particular the movement around "Reconquest", the party of Eric Zemmour. Among the speakers at the April 30 demonstration in Saint-Brévin, Bernard Germain, a candidate of "Reconquest" in the last legislative elections in the Côtes d'Armor. The latter was the spokesman of the committee hostile to a project to receive people who had obtained refugee status, accompanied by a residence permit granted by the State, in Callac (Côtes d'Armor).
Faced with pressure from the far right and tensions in the municipality, the municipality of Callac had finally abandoned in January the project, carried by a private foundation, unlike Saint-Brévin where the contested project is supported by the State. Questioned by AFP at the end of March, the mayor of Saint-Brévin recalled that a total of 400 asylum seekers have been welcomed in the town since the opening of the CADA seven years ago. And, he stressed, "there was never the slightest problem."
