Clearly, standing in the way of an elected official during illegal dumping in your community is becoming really dangerous. Illustration once again on Tuesday, this time in Houtaud, a small town in Haut Doubs near Pontarlier. Michel Claude, 68, deputy mayor, was going to the heights of the village where illegal dumping had been reported when he surprised a car whose driver had just unloaded an object into a ravine, reports The Republican East.
Telephone in hand, the elected official then asked the indelicate person to pick up the thrown object but the latter refused strongly, and this on several occasions, although the elected official told him his identity and his function.
Several slaps
It was then that the passenger got out of the vehicle and, the elected official told our colleagues, gave him several slaps in the face, knocking off his glasses and his phone, which she tried to trample on. The couple, in their thirties, then fled, leaving the chosen one in a state of shock and a three-day ITT.
A complaint was filed and the alleged perpetrators were identified and arrested. Placed in police custody, the woman was finally referred to the prosecution and the man fined for this illegal deposit.