An incident that blurs the countryside. The leader of the new ecology-PS list in Pays-de-la-Loire, Matthieu Orphelin, has filed a complaint for having been personally targeted by insults and gestures of a homophobic nature, he said. The authors of these remarks, pronounced Tuesday at the exit of the elementary school Henri-Chiron in Angers, would be two activists who stuck posters bearing the effigy of the candidate LR Christelle Morancais, who won the first round of the regional elections on Sunday . Matthieu Orphelin was on site as part of his jump ball campaign. The two activists could not be identified by the team of the left candidate.
“Sanction these two people as quickly as possible”
Shocked by these “serious and intolerable behaviors”, Matthieu Orphelin asked Christelle Morancais this Wednesday morning to “publicly condemn these actions and punish these two people as quickly as possible by excluding them from your campaign and from your list if they do. acts of candidates ”. “I also ask you, as head of the list, to apologize to all the people who suffer from this homophobia on a daily basis,” he insisted.
The reaction of the outgoing president of the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council did not delay. “The facts denounced by Matthieu Orphelin, if they are proven, are serious and I condemn them with the greatest firmness. If their materiality is established, and a link is demonstrated with my teams, which is absolutely not the case to date, I will obviously take the necessary measures ”, reacted Christelle Mor Anglais. The head of the LR list, however, warned the environmental candidate. “I know the methods inspired by the far left, any attack aimed at portraying me as a homophobe will lead to legal proceedings. I will not tolerate it. “
“He went much too far”
But the case did not end there. Matthieu Orphelin and Christelle Morancais strongly clung to this subject this Wednesday afternoon behind the scenes of the local television set. Telenantes, Where the recording of a jump ball debate was scheduled. The exchange, which took place in front of several witnesses, was so lively that Christelle Morancais preferred to leave the premises on the spot, in tears. The debate could not take place.
“I don’t accept verbal abuse, threats and the brutality of his words. He went too far, indignant the head of the LR list. If I have to lose the elections, I will lose them and others will do what they can for me. But I don’t want violence, I don’t want aggression. ”