“It’s a surge that should never touch anyone“. In a letter, received by France Bleu Nord this Thursday, the mayor of Roubaix, Guillaume Delbar expressed “what has become (his) daily life as mayor and his teams since the broadcast of the M6 report“. The report dedicated to Islamism, partly shot in Roubaix, broadcast on Sunday January 23, does indeed continue to arouse reactions.
According to the mayor, a person was arrested on Wednesday with intervention of the RAID, the elite unit of the National Police. This man would have threatened Guillaume Delbar and his wife with death. Still according to Guillaume Delbar, it would be “of a dangerous individual, and main suspect of a particularly barbaric attack in the middle of the street, with a stabbing weapon“.
Arrest unrelated to recent threats
According to our information, this arrest took place on Wednesday, but she’s not connected to the threat investigation of which Guillaume Delbar is the subject. The suspect was wanted for a sword attack, and it is for these facts that he was arrested. In the past, this man had threatened the mayor of Roubaix with death. But it has not been established that he is the author of recent threats.
In his letter, Guillaume Delbar explains that he receives “more than a dozen messages every day“. And to cite a particularly violent example: “kind of fat prostituted pig of the Islamists’ Turkish shitty politics. Your name will forever remain as that of a traitor. You will pay dearly“. The mayor of Roubaix takes these threats very seriously: “acting out is always preceded by words inciting hatred and violence“, he writes, specifying that he has filed a complaint for death threats.
Being mayor doesn’t have to be that
“Being mayor doesn’t have to be that“, writes Guillaume Delbar again, “it is to make decisions for the inhabitants, to assume them in their consequences: not to become a living target“. By the way, he targets “some opponents, some ‘whistleblowers’, and some press. I would like them to understand that by playing with fire, acting as sorcerers’ apprentices, we open the way to a surge that we no longer control.“.