It was the evening of his election, June 28, 2020. While hundreds of people celebrated Bruno Piriou's victory in Corbeil-Essonnes, in the crowd, a small threatening group chanted the name of his defeated rival, Jean-Pierre Bechter (LR), and promises to “break everything”.
Newly elected, the mayor knows that his mandate will not be like any other.
Succeeding twenty-five years of the “Dassault system” means putting an end to many undue privileges.
“These people hate me,” he tells us.
Nearly four years later, the mayor of Corbeil-Essonnes continues to receive anonymous death threats every month.
His home has been placed under video surveillance, police patrols pass there regularly and the elected official does not part with his bodyguard.
But these pressures do not impress him.
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