It is a worrying letter to say the least that the mayor of the municipality of Hagetmau, in the Landes, Pascale Requenna (MoDem), received in her letterbox.
This Tuesday, the elected received a letter containing a 9mm caliber pistol cartridge and a paper bearing the handwritten mention "collabo".
An investigation for threat of death on a person holding public authority was opened and entrusted to the Mont-de-Marsan gendarmerie, with scientific and technical police resources, said the prosecution.
Several elected officials threatened
This is the second time in a few days that Pascale Requenna has been the target of threats: at the end of July, her name, highlighted, appeared on sheets stapled to dummy guillotines in wood and cardboard, about 2 meters high, discovered in four municipalities in the Landes, including Hagetmau.
These lists of names were accompanied by a leaflet entitled "prohibition of compulsory health pass and vaccination".
Pascale Requenna then lodged a complaint, and did so again on Tuesday.
She could not be reached on Tuesday at the end of the day.
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A 50-year-old man, with a clean criminal record, was arrested a few days later, identified through the use of video surveillance images.
He had indicated that he had acted alone, and wanted by his guillotines "to alert the mayors concerned of the violation of fundamental freedoms by government decisions" in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.
But he regretted that the symbol was "badly perceived" and assured that he "never had the intention or the conscience to threaten the elected officials with death".
Placed under judicial supervision, with a ban on contacting victims to participate in a demonstration on the public highway, the suspect will be tried in October.
Several elected officials, including deputies, have in recent weeks been the subject of death threats and attempted intimidation for their support of the government's vaccination strategy and health pass, leading the Paris prosecutor's office to open an investigation on July 20. .