Fresnes city corridor ransacked just a few hours earlier than the brand new mayor LR took workplace | EUROtoday

Reception corridor of the city corridor ransacked, home windows exploded: the city middle of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), south of Paris, was the scene of violent injury on Friday March 27 within the night, adopted on Saturday morning by the stormy set up of the brand new mayor.

Rue Ténine, proper subsequent to the city corridor of this city of 30,000 inhabitants, the injury is hanging. “The windows were broken,” laments Stevie Agodor, supervisor of the Quick Permis 94 driving college, who additionally noticed a bike value greater than 2,000 euros put up for a promotion disappear. Estimating his loss at almost 20,000 euros, he fears being “forced to close during the work” if his insurance coverage doesn’t cowl the loss.

The neighboring Savings Bank was additionally focused.

Inside the city corridor, focused round 9:30 p.m., “a reception desk was vandalized, the screens (…) were broken”, detailed to AFP Christophe Carlier, who obtained 45.00% of the votes within the second spherical of municipal elections, forward of outgoing socialist mayor Marie Chavanon (43.53%).

Folding tables have been overturned and glass shattered. The new councilor, who deplores a “colossal” injury to the functioning of companies, criticizes an assault towards “the common house”, in keeping with him “clearly linked to the election”.

On video surveillance photos consulted by AFP, we see round ten masked folks method the constructing and break the doorway door utilizing what seems to be like a fireworks mortar, earlier than dashing in to smash every part with sticks.

The opposition condemns “unacceptable” violence

Despite this ransacking and the necessity to retreat to a different room, the municipal council was in a position to meet on Saturday morning to validate the inauguration of the brand new mayor.

The socialist opposition condemned “unacceptable” violence, whereas warning the brand new majority. “We must not give in to the conspiracy theory (…) and let it still serve as an excuse for the right to position the armament” of a future municipal police power, warned the elected opposition consultant Rachida Sadane.

The latter denounced to the AFP a “heated” set up session throughout which the left was “prevented from expressing themselves”, accusing particularly the Minister of Housing Vincent Jeanbrun, current within the viewers, of getting “cut him off”.

Vincent Jeanbrun, former mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a neighboring city, for his half confided his emotion on the photos of the vandalized city corridor, which revived recollections of “the attack on (his) home” throughout the riots in the summertime of 2023.

“We see that there are underlying movements in our country which refuse authority and come to express themselves even in the political debate to almost intimidate teams (…) which defended the return of order”, estimated the minister, calling for an “extremely firm” response.

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Elected officers pushed or insulted

The president of the Île-de-France area, Valérie Pécresse, condemned on the identical social community “the unleashed violence of these delinquents who do not accept democracy and the results of the election”, including that she had “offered the new mayor the help of the region to better secure its public space”.

Julien Aubert, vice-president of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering, offered on X “full support” for the brand new LR mayor of Fresnes. “How can we not see a political aspect in this attack? Strange, this looting.”

This assault and this looting “of course resemble a political revenge of individuals who refuse the results of the ballot boxes”, additionally estimated the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella on the social community.

The Fresnes episode takes place in a typically harsh local weather for the reason that second spherical, punctuated by incidents, with elected officers being pushed round or insulted.

Scenes of pressure have been filmed in a number of suburban city halls received by La France Insoumise (LFI) or numerous left-wing candidates, whereas in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), the defeated mayor defined that he needed to be escorted by the police on the finish of the vote.

With AFP