there will be several hundred “elected in scarf to mark their attachment to the Republic”, assures the mayor of Nantes

“There will be 300, 400, 500 elected officials in a scarf to mark their attachment to the Republic”, assured Wednesday May 24 on France Inter the socialist mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland, who will join in the afternoon a symbolic march in Saint-Brevin (Loire-Atlantique) in support of the mayor Yannick Morez, who resigned after the arson attack on his home due to a project to transfer a reception center for asylum seekers (Cada). “We will be there to affirm our support for Yannick Morez, to say that when a mayor is attacked, it is the Republic that is in danger”underlined the mayor of Nantes.

While thanking the elected officials who support him, Yannick Morez regretted in a press release on Tuesday “the political recovery, in particular by the far left, of this march which was initially intended to be cross-partisan. I also regret the discretion of the right on this theme,” he continued. “There will be several thousand people of all sensibilities,” said the first deputy secretary of the PS, while the rally was driven by left-wing parties.

“An instrumentalization of the government”

“Never should a mayor, an elected representative of the Republic, have to choose between his mandate and protecting his family”, she asserted. “Beyond that, it is a very serious signal of the increase in violence against elected officials but also of a climate where the far right plays a particularly nauseating game and role in our country”, she castigated, while denouncing “the instrumentalization of the government” Who “makes a political parallel between La France insoumise and the extreme right”.

Acts of physical or verbal violence against elected officials increased by 32% in 2022, according to the Ministry of the Interior.