The mayor (LR) of La Baule said at the municipal council meeting on Friday, May 26 that he had received death threats by anonymous mail. "I am obliged to talk to you about it in view of the climate of violence of the moment against elected officials," said Franck Louvrier before the elected officials of the city of Loire-Atlantique, reports Ouest-France. "This shipment under cover of anonymity was accompanied by photos of the decapitated head of Samuel Paty and by another photo on the Bataclan attack, with the mention: 'it could be in La Baule'," he added.
The judicial police of Nantes "immediately seized the investigation", still according to Ouest-France.
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For the mayor of La Baule, who evoked the violence against elected officials on social networks, "the tricolor scarf does not protect more than the white coat or the uniform. We were within reach of slaps, we are within range of criminal acts that led the mayor of Saint-Brevin to resign. These are unacceptable methods that aim to win their case through terror and brutality.
»Franck Louvrier had repeatedly expressed his solidarity with the mayor of Saint-Brévin-les-pins, who resigned after an arson attack at his home.
