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While attacks against elected officials are expected to increase by 15% in 2023 after an increase of 32% last year, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, this Tuesday will open the traditional congress of mayors and presidents of intercommunality of France. They will meet until November 23 in Paris, around the theme “Communities attacked, Republic threatened” against a backdrop of a feeling of “Republican fatigue”. Emmanuel Macron, who was initially scheduled to go to the show on Wednesday, had to cancel his visit due to a G20 summit by videoconference. On the other hand, he will receive a thousand mayors at the Elysée. Around fifteen ministers as well as the Prime Minister are nevertheless expected.
The story delivered on France 5 by Sandrine Josso sends shivers down your spine. Claiming to still be “in post-trauma”, the MP, who accuses Senator Joël Guerriau of having drugged her with a view to sexually assaulting her, spoke for the first time publicly on Monday evening. “I thought I was going to die of a heart attack. I thought I was going to die because I thought he was going to abuse me. “, she revealed. Joël Guerriau has since been arrested and indicted. According to his lawyer, the senator had felt unwell the day before the incident due to the death of his cat and the meeting of a friend who was sick with cancer. “We never talked about that during the evening,” assured Sandrine Josso, doubting this version.
It is a terrible tragedy which shakes a village in Drôme. Suspects are “in the process of being identified” after the brawl during which Thomas, a 16-year-old teenager, was fatally injured on Saturday evening, in front of the Crépol village hall. Around fifty witnesses have already been heard by the gendarmes and as many still have to be heard. The tragedy sparked an avalanche of violent reactions from the ultra-right on social networks. These accounts call for mobilization for the white march planned for Wednesday afternoon in Romans-sur-Isère, where young Thomas’s high school is located. Evoking a “vile and unacceptable” act, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, for his part, estimated Monday evening on the set of the show “C à vous” on France 5 that these facts were part of a phenomenon of “wilding “.