“Get out of the way if you don’t want to burn like a merguez”: covered with insults and threatened in an anonymous letter, the mayor of Givors, Mohamed Boudjellaba, lodged a complaint and received the support of the French government on Sunday.
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“The war, you will have it”, “we still know how to use a machine gun”, “you know how it looks like a bomb in a house, it goes boom”: the letter of which the elected official published extracts on Twitter is particularly hateful and violent towards him.
“In all, four pages of slander, racial hatred and threats”, summarized Mr. Boudjellaba who had won at the end of June the second round of the municipal election in this town of 20,000 inhabitants located between Lyon and Saint-Étienne.
Members of the government have also reacted. “Four pages of unsigned loathing. An investigation is open to find this ‘anonymous’ and present it to Justice, “tweeted the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, addressing his support to his” compatriot “mayor of Givors.
“To attack an elected official is to attack the Republic. Hatred has no place in our society ”, for his part reacted the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin,“ disgusted ”by“ unbearable ”remarks.
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