The former head of the DST (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance), counter-espionage services, Yves Bonnet. – Jacques Demarthon afp.com
Yves Bonnet, former director general of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), joins the National Rally (RN) for the regional elections in Normandy. He will be a candidate in Seine-Maritime, announced the head of the party list Nicolas Bay.
Aged 85, Yves Bonnet headed the DST, or the counter-espionage services, from 1982 to 1985. He was then prefect several times and was elected UDF deputy for La Manche from 1993 to 1997. President of a association for the defense of Norman heritage and landscapes, it is openly opposed to the installation of wind turbines in the region.
Several various rallies at the RN
Yves Bonnet will be candidate in fifth position on the RN list in Seine-Maritime for the June election. In the press release, the candidate believes that “only Nicolas Bay can put an end to the wind mirage which threatens our energy independence”.
He castigates in particular the outgoing president Hervé Morin “and his Macronist allies [qui] destroy our landscapes in the name of an ideology ”. The head of the list Nicolas Bay welcomed “the arrival of a man of experience and talent” who “once again demonstrates the dynamics of the campaign” led by the RN.
In recent weeks, Marine Le Pen’s party has made public several rallies of candidates from outside the party. This is particularly the case of the former secretary general of LR at the regional council in Occitania Cédric Delapierre, of the Breton businessman Florent de Kersauson in Brittany, or of the former LCI presenter Philippe Ballard in Ile-de-France. of France.