“I never said those words”. At the helm, the mayor of Carhaix disputes everything, with aplomb. No altercation would have occurred this Friday, July 16, 2021 around 9:40 p.m., when he presented himself in the company of three women and a man at the entrance to the Vieilles Charrues festival, which he co-founded thirty years ago.
Wanting to take an emergency exit, the group is first turned away by a security guard to whom Christian Troadec would have said: “I am at home, on my land. You do not breathe intelligence”. Invited to go through the main entrance, the elected regionalist sees red when checking the health pass, when the person in charge of festival entries dares to ask him for an identity document. “You are a collaborator, if you had been born in 40, you would be behind the gun”, he allegedly barked before he could finally enter the site. Shocked, the volunteer filed a complaint the next day.
A setup”
Among the testimonies collected by the gendarmes, several volunteers and security agents recount having been singled out and treated with “Macron collaborators”. While all the witnesses – except his relatives – say he was drunk or even “fully charged” at the time of the facts, Christian Troadec assures that he had not drunk anything. “I was in my normal state, I was coming out of a town hall meeting”. The posture of the defendant quickly annoys the president, who reframes him: “You are not on the municipal council, here it is I who leads the debates”.
For the vice-president (Languages of Brittany and Bretons of the World) at the Regional Council of Brittany, all that is a “set up to harm me and dirty me”. He insists heavily on the conflict between him and the president of the Vieilles Charrues association Jean-Luc Martin, seated at the back of the room next to festival director Jérôme Tréhorel. A defense that “bordering on paranoia” for the prosecutor, who is asking for a fine of 2,500 euros.
Reduced fine
The court, which did not believe the mayor’s version, finally imposed a fine of 1,500 euros on him. That is 1,000 euros less than his conviction by criminal order in early February, which the defendant had opposed in order to be able to explain himself to the judges. The complainant will receive 600 euros in damages, which he promised to donate to the Resistance Museum in Argoat. Christian Troadec plans to appeal for, he says, “defend my honor”.