The door to the medical office of the mayor of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps was forced open and then the premises burned down last night. There were no injuries but the material damage was particularly significant.
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The medical office of the mayor of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (Indre-et-Loire), Emmanuel François, burned down on the night of Thursday September 1 to Friday September 2, without causing any injuries. According to France Bleu Touraine, the public prosecutor of Tours is moving towards the criminal track. “The door of the room was forced and the fire started in the waiting room“, he said in a statement released Friday morning. “The material damage is particularly important”he explains.
The Tours prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “destruction by fire by a means dangerous to people”. The fact that the person concerned, the mayor, is a person holding public authority, is an aggravating circumstance, specifies France Bleu Touraine. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Tours and to the departmental security of the Public Security Directorate of Indre-et-Loire.
A doomed fire “with the greatest firmness” by the prefect of Indre-et-Loire. In a press release published on Friday, she denounces “a new act of violence committed against the mayor of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, when other facts had already targeted the mayor and elected officials of the municipal majority in March 2022 and December 2021. Faced with these repeated acts of violence against the elected officials of the Republic, the services of the State are fully mobilized to ensure the safety of persons and respect for republican values and institutions, she added.
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These facts come the day after the attack on another elected official: the mayor of Châteauneuf-sur-Cher, struck in the face by a 19-year-old boy. On franceinfo, Jean-Paul Jeandon, member of the Association of Mayors of France, deplored “a social phenomenon. In 2020, the Ministry of the Interior recorded 1,300 attacks, threats, insults against elected officials. That is three more than in 2019”, he was alarmed.