The mayor of Marcq-en-Baroeul (North), a town in the Lille metropolitan area, filed a complaint against X after discovering that the cables controlling the anti-lock system of the wheels of his car had been cut, he said. -he announced on Saturday, confirming information from The voice of the North. “We have reached a milestone in the violence committed against elected officials,” regrets Bernard Gérard (LR), also president of the association of mayors of the North, who says he regularly hears other mayors inform him of violence against them .
“I filed a complaint for damage, it will be up to the prosecution to qualify the facts,” said the mayor of this town of 40,000 inhabitants. On January 5, his wife noticed a red light appearing on the dashboard of their car. A mechanic and then an expert from the insurance company noted that “the ABS cables had been cut with pliers,” explains Bernard Gérard.
Context of violence targeting elected officials
He filed a complaint the following week, on January 9. “The mayors are there for living together and for harmony, and when we see things like this, it’s worrying and we need to help us put an end to it,” he hopes. he. In 2023, many elected officials were targeted by violence, culminating in the arson in March of the home of the mayor of Saint-Brevin (Loire-Atlantique), Yannick Morez, and the car attack. ram targeting that of the councilor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne), during the riots at the beginning of July.
Bernard Gérard says he received a note from Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior and former mayor of Tourcoing, another town in the Lille metropolis. He also received numerous public supports on Xavier Bertrand.