“Between sympathizing and acting to put in place a certain number of things, that’s another thing”, regrets the vice-president of the Association of mayors of France

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Philippe Laurent declared this Wednesday on franceinfo to expect concrete measures from the State, starting with better education of the youngest on the role of the elected representatives of the Republic.

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Philippe Laurent, vice-president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), in November 2021 in Paris. (LUDOVIC MARIN)

A few hours after the gathering of around 2,000 people in Saint-Brevin (Loire-Atlantique), to support Yannick Morez, resigning mayor whose house was burned down at the end of March, Philippe Laurent estimated on franceinfo Wednesday May 24 that the State can do better to protect the elected representatives of the Republic: “I’m not saying that the state hasn’t been aware of this issue, but between sympathizing and acting to put in place a certain number of things is another thing.”

The mayor (UDI) of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) affirms that the AMF has been warning since 2019 and the death of Jean-Mathieu Michel, mayor of Signes, that elected officials are threatened by violence which is increasing from year to year . But the mayors of France are not listened to, continues Philippe Laurent. “We had taken action, in collaboration with the Senate, to set up an observatory of verbal and physical violence against elected officials”.

The vice-president of the AMF would like to point out that “now, we are no longer simply in the citizen who is not happy and who upsets the mayor a little”. The priority advocates Philippe Laurent, is to strengthen education on this subject.

“Relearning citizenship, relearning how to form a society and relearning first of all to children and young people what the values ​​of the Republic are. The town hall is the little Republic.”

Philip Lawrence

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According to the aedile, “we abandoned at school any training in civic education, learning for children what the town hall is, etc.” Philippe Laurent takes the example of his commune of Hauts-de-Seine, where “We have children’s councils. We meet them at the town hall, we explain things to them and they are very interested”. It takes pedagogy, proclaims the vice-president of the AMF, and “We’ve been telling all the ministers of national education for years.”


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