“Colin! Take your rag and go back to Toulon!”: when the mayor of La Seyne tackles his first deputy on social networks

The photo of a leaflet by Jean-Pierre Colin crossed out with these words, in bright red: “Colin! Pick up your rag and go back to Toulon!!!”. Followed by this comment, signed Nathalie Bicais: “Response from a Seynois to Mr. Colin’s letter, found in my mailbox this morning. If you share this sentiment, share this image. Thank you for your support!”

The violence of the message posted this Friday noon on Facebook by the mayor of La Seyne moved many Seynois. Even though we’ve known for months that the rag is burning between the city councilor and his first deputy, the confrontation has so far not exceeded certain verbal limits. Would they be about to be crossed?

J.-P. Colin: “It’s the energy of despair”

“It’s the energy of despair”comments Jean-Pierre Colin. “There is nothing exceptional about this political letter. When I realized to what extent the City’s communication was self-centered, I wanted to find a way to have a voice in the chapter. It is a quarterly newsletter distributed to 30,000 copies, on my personal funds, where I express what I feel…”

The problem is that Jean-Pierre Colin hardly feels positive things towards Nathalie Bicais. If the two had managed together to run for mayor of La Seyne in 2020, the honeymoon is only a distant memory. Last year, the first dismissed the second from its delegations, accusing him of maneuvers and low blows. Jean-Pierre Colin, far from tendering his left cheek, continues from the tripping to the first magistrate.

In his political letter, we can thus read, among other kindnesses: “While our mayor lives an unlimited passion for Napoleon, of which she does not hesitate, with all the humility that characterizes her, to wear the Emperor’s uniform alone during his parade on the corniche, he said. She became well aware of her political weakening, which all things considered looks more like a retreat from Russia? And during the retreat from Russia, there was the Battle of Berezina…”

N. Bicais: “It’s pathetic”

However, Nathalie Bicais, “not upset at all“, refuses to be attributed the words she echoes on social networks. Does she really want Jean-Pierre Colin to return to Toulon, where he began his political career and where he works? “I only act as the spokesperson for people who do not have the floor. Many people felt attacked by Jean-Pierre Colin’s leaflet. I, precisely, did not want to answer it. It is certain that this political letter does not honor its author. It is pathetic.”

For his part, Jean-Pierre Colin takes this umpteenth Seynoise controversy lightly. “Certainly, I’m not going there with the back of the spoon, but there are many things in municipal management that make me unhappy. These are not pleasant words, but there are many unpleasant things that happen in this moment at La Seyne. And then, frankly, if you are not ready to suffer this kind of criticism when you do politics, you have to do sculpture…”