Le Figaro Nantes
The mayor of Saint-Molf likes to emphasize the coquetry of his small rural town.
Located 15 kilometers north of La Baule, in Loire-Atlantique, the town of 3,000 inhabitants is lined with clean streets, planted with flowers;
In the summer, a few families of campers come to taste the salty air of the ocean and the neighboring marshes.
However, for a few days now, a worrying rumor has been circulating in the housing estates.
The pretty town has been hit by a strange series of vandalisms.
The accidents recorded vary.
Residents talk about scooters missing and found dismembered, car windows broken in different places.
The oldest facts date back a few weeks.
And then there was last weekend.
On the night of February 24 to 25, an outbreak of violence caused the damage to a touch terminal at the town hall, the damage to a school bus and the partial destruction of a bus shelter.
For this sequence alone, the amount of damage would amount to 10,000 euros.
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Psychosis
“It’s psychosis now,”
slips to Le
Figaro
the unlabeled mayor of Saint-Molf, Hubert Delorme.
The councilor filed a complaint Wednesday morning with the Guérande gendarmerie.
On site, he was told that other complaints had recently preceded him for similar facts, still in his municipality.
Seven procedures are underway.
Enough to make you dizzy.
Hubert Delorme has difficulty understanding what could possibly produce such gratuitous chaos.
“Moreover, these acts occur in different sectors, so we cannot predict them,”
he observes, a bit distraught.
No suspect has yet been formally identified.
Some residents, however, indicate that they have surprised the silhouettes of people who were walking in the town at the time of the events.
A hammer was also found.
Online, the approximately 3,000 inhabitants of Saint-Molf therefore turn the subject over and over in their discussion threads, multiplying alerts and speculations.
The mayor has his own ideas about the troublemakers.
“They could be brainless young people, morons, probably troublemakers from the town,”
he suggests, noting that young people on scooters sometimes create small neighborhood quarrels.
The motive for these gratuitous acts, however, leaves him completely silent.
The investigation is continuing within the Guérande gendarmerie.
Despite the remarks of the mobilized law enforcement, the mayor does not intend to suddenly invest in a local video surveillance system.
“
It costs an arm and a leg, and would only shift the problem
,” he suggests.
To our colleagues at
L'Écho de la Presqu'île
, Hubert Delorme continues to refer to Saint-Molf by his favorite expression of "
little paradise on earth"
.
Windows have been broken, but paradise is not yet lost.