The case of the menhirs destroyed in Carnac (Morbihan) is far from over. After the complaint filed Monday by the Koun Breizh association for “voluntary destruction of archaeological heritage”, the Lorient prosecutor’s office has just opened an investigation against X, we learned this Friday. She was entrusted to the research brigade of the Lorient gendarmerie.
The Sites & Monuments heritage defense association has also joined in this complaint, which aims to shed full light “to identify the flaws that led to the destruction of the monoliths and establish everyone’s responsibilities. “The two associations also ensure that they condemn” firmly the threats of which the mayor of Carnac has been the victim and not to bring any charges in this case. »
Mayor’s home under surveillance
Widely relayed, the Carnac menhirs affair broke out in early June after posting a post online by an amateur archaeologist claiming that about forty small menhirs had been destroyed in a construction site of a DIY store. In an attempt to extinguish the controversy, the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Drac) of Brittany had underlined the “still uncertain and in all cases not major character of the remains. »
The mayor of Carnac Olivier Lepick (Horizons) had for his part recognized “an administrative error” but which would not be “not the fact of the municipality” which respected the legislation according to him. The home of the elected official, threatened with death on social networks, has since been placed under the protection of the gendarmerie. Tags had also been inscribed in the night from Saturday to Sunday on the entrance facade of the church of the town.