suspended for anti-Semitic feedback, Bernard Bazinet regains his mayor’s chair and needs to return | EUROtoday

“The municipal council informs you that there will be no greeting ceremony this new year for exceptional reasons”, introduced on January 21 the Facebook web page of the city corridor of Augignac, a commune in Dordogne with 825 inhabitants. And for good motive: elected for the primary time in 2020, its mayor (ex-socialist) Bernard Bazinet was suspended for having made anti-Semitic remarks.

The elected official will, nevertheless, be capable of rapidly current his needs to his constituents since he’ll return to his mayor’s chair this Tuesday, February 3, his suspension having been pronounced for a interval of 1 month, the utmost period supplied for by the texts. By a decree revealed on 1^er January to Official Journalthe Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, had really determined to droop the councilor contemplating that he “no longer had the moral authority necessary to exercise his duties as mayor”.

Rare, this sanction was following a remark revealed on December 4, 2025 by Bernard Bazinet underneath a Facebook submit by Release regarding Israel’s participation within the 2026 version of Eurovision, threatened with boycott by a number of nations. “Yes to the boycott! France is too quirky to boycott”he wrote, suggesting an affect of the Jewish neighborhood in France’s determination to keep up its participation within the musical competitors. Comments which due to this fact earned him a sanction from the Ministry of the Interior in addition to his exclusion from the Socialist Party (PS). “He used unacceptable phrases from the worst extremes, declared the PS. Anti-Semitism is a heinous evil. No tolerance, no clarification might be heard. »

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