the mayor of Canteleu, prosecuted for complicity in drug trafficking, resigns for “health reasons”

The PS mayor of Canteleu (Seine-Maritime), Mélanie Boulanger, announced that she was resigning from her position at the head of the Normandy municipality “for health reasons”. The councilor, accused of complicity in drug trafficking, at the same time “addressed his resignation from the mandate of regional advisor to the president of the Normandy Region” but will remain a member of the Canteleu municipal council, specifies the town hall in a press release, Wednesday February 21, confirming information from the Norman media Le Poulpe.

In January, two investigating judges from Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) ordered the referral to the criminal court of Mélanie Boulanger, one of her deputies and 17 other people suspected of being involved in vast drug trafficking. narcotics in this town of 14,000 inhabitants, near Rouen. The trial date has not been specified. Mélanie Boulanger is notably suspected of having given information to traffickers about police checks, delaying the installation of video surveillance cameras, which she has always denied.

She denounces a “surreal” accusation

“This accusation dirties me and makes me suffer, as much as it damages the image of our city and that of my family”, reacted the elected official in the town hall press release. She also denounces an accusation “surrealist”.

“The announcement – ​​on January 12 – of my referral to a criminal court, however, inflicted on me a decompensation that was as unexpected as it was worrying.she writes. Since then, it has been a fight for my health that I have had to lead (…) This medical fight is the only one that is not compatible with the heavy responsibilities of mayor, and that is why I am forced to give it up.” .