Their presence is discreet, but two bodyguards now accompany the mayor of Bron on all his travels. Jérémie Bréaud (LR) benefits from temporary police protection, pending a lasting decision, after the events of Wednesday, February 24.
Insulted, threatened, the mayor had been the target of projectiles, and his car ransacked. The file has been on the table for several months, after several threats of “beheading” appeared on the walls of the city. On October 22, Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, even spoke in a tweet indicating that at his request “the prefect would seize justice and provide protection for the elected. “Three months later, the protection was still not and Mr. Bréaud denounced on January 26” an effect of announcement “.
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Laurent Wauquiez in support
This Monday, the mayor is therefore supervised by two new people during his visit to the vaccination center in his city. “Protection was becoming necessary. I had the Minister on the phone on Thursday, who immediately assured me of protection pending the reassessment of my file, ”said Jérémie Bréaud, who received a support visit from the president of the region Laurent Wauquiez on Monday (LR ).
“As regional president as well as as a friend, it is good to have Mr. Wauquiez with me today”, confides the Brondillant.
“We had to act”
“I can not accept that Jérémie Bréaud is threatened”, says for his part the president of the region. “The Minister of the Interior gave a word in October concerning the protection of Jeremiah, a word that was not kept. I took the liberty of writing him a Republican letter on Thursday to remind him of his words, and to tell him that he had to act! »Asserts Laurent Wauquiez.
The file concerning the protection of Jérémie Bréaud should be quickly examined in the prefecture, in the coming days.
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