“I fell backwards and my head hit the ground,” testifies the elected official

The mayor of Cambo-les-Bains testifies for the first time since the very agitated municipal council during which the elected official was thrown to the ground.

This is the first time that the mayor of Cambo-les-Bains (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) has spoken since this particularly agitated municipal council meeting on Wednesday April 10. 80 people burst into the boardroom to protest “the Marienia project”a housing project planned on Marienia land, currently considered agricultural land.

The mayor, Christian Devèze, was briefly hospitalized for a brain contusion according to information from France Bleu Pays Basque on Friday April 12. The chosen one says: “There was a commotion around me, and I was thrown to the ground. I fell backwards and my head hit the ground, and in a sort of chaos I was taken out of the room. advice”.

A suspended session

Aware of the issues, and the possibilities of excesses, the mayor nevertheless insisted on keeping the session open to the public: “We had agreed with the sub-prefect that I would not hold a closed session. I consider, like him, that the demonstration is a possibility which falls within the constitutional order”, reports France Bleu Pays Basque. For two hours, from 8:08 p.m. to 10:08 p.m., exchanges were impossible, due to the concert of bells and sticks from the demonstrators.

But the meeting was not suspended, Christian Devèze would like to point out: “Faced with the impossibility of carrying out the agenda of the meeting of this municipal council, I decided not, not to cancel, but to suspend this meeting”. But when he tried to escape, the mayor says he was “thrown to the ground”. However, he testifies “not having suffered an attack” : “I was pushed”, he remembers. Since then, Christian Devèze has been better, he hopes not to suffer any after-effects.