Christian Estrosi denies, with supporting medical certificates, a rumor that he suffers from Parkinson’s illness | EUROtoday

The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi (Horizons), candidate for re-election, denied, Saturday February 14, with supporting medical certificates, a rumor saying he suffered from Parkinson’s illness, denouncing “the disgusting game that some play” one month earlier than the municipal elections, scheduled for March 15 and 22.

“Some people are spreading the rumor that I am sick, suffering from Parkinson’s disease. For three weeks, not a day has gone by without a journalist asking my press officer the question. The day before yesterday it was in a hairdressing salon that the mother of my grown children – but my wife is also regularly – was questioned”was indignant Christian Estrosi in a press release to the press.

The mayor of Nice gave journalists the letter from a neurologist explaining that after examination, to this point, there is no such thing as a “no objective anamnestic or clinical argument in favor of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease or any other neurological disorder”.

An elevated rivalry between Estrosi and Ciotti

The elected official, who’s searching for a fourth time period, additionally talked about rumors circulating about an alleged separation from his spouse and about “a staggering amount of money” that the couple would have touched – “a pure fantasy”in accordance with him. The mayor denounced “despicable barbouze methods” by concentrating on, with out ever naming him, his most important opponent at Nice city corridor Eric Ciotti (Union of Rights for the Republic, UDR, ally of the National Rally, RN).

“I will not let anything go, these methods are despicable for the family and first of all for my 8 year old daughter to whom we had to explain that no, her dad was not sick, and who we now have to console every evening”he added.

This sequence comes because the rivalry between Christian Estrosi and Eric Ciotti, former touring companions, has hardened in current weeks, with assaults towards every new working mate introduced by one of many two candidates or authorized reviews.

Friday night, the Nice prosecutor’s workplace confirmed to Agence France-Presse the opening, following a report, of a preliminary investigation for “favoritism” and “corruption” relating to an order for surgical masks positioned by town in the course of the Covid epidemic in 2020, confirming info from the Figaro and of Chained Duck. The metropolis, by means of its council, explains that the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis really ordered numerous sanitary tools in April 2020 for an quantity of 1.1 million euros, however claims to haven’t “no contractual link” with the corporate implicated within the report back to the courts.

In January, it was the report of a “anonymous whistleblower” which had earned Eric Ciotti the chance to be heard as a part of an investigation into suspicions of unlawful registration.