« Fortunately, I am supported, but I remain shocked… “Anthony Rolland cashes. The voice is good but the amazement effect is there. The city councilor, elected in Gauriaguet, in the North Gironde, did not imagine ending his evening in the emergency room of the Bordeaux-Right Polyclinique, in Lormont, this Saturday, May 3.
This 46 -year -old business manager failed to be overturned by a motorcycle during a rodeo in a street in the town, just before 6 p.m. He then went to meet the pilots on the ground of the ball-trap, well known to two-wheelers, to ask them to stop their dangerous conduct.
The conversation has become stormy. He then received a blow from the back, at the level of the face, and fell. The arcade, the arcade and the fractured cheekbone, it was awarded a total incapacity for work (ITT) of ten days. The elected official filed a gendarmerie complaint. An investigation was opened to find the authors, conducted by the soldiers of the Blaye company under the authority of the Libourne prosecution.
“Intention to hurt”
“I knew where they were going,” says Anthony Rolland. There was a concentration of fifteen motorcycles there. Man did not think he was in difficulty. “The local bikers, I know them, we talk to each other. But it was not the same. The tone has risen. I felt a mass coming to me. »A pipe? A helmet? The investigation will have to determine it. The elected official, once on the ground, was switched to tobacco. “I was sounded, I don’t remember everything, but when I woke up I was in pain everywhere, like after a particularly muscular rugby match …” He rests at his home with his wife and two children.
A pipe? A helmet? The investigation will have to determine it. The elected official, once on the ground, was passed to tobacco
The mayor of Gauriaguet, Alain Montangon, does not takeoff. “My colleague is traumatized. He intends to go all the way on the judicial plan. “These are very serious facts. Anthony Rolland was not just insulted, as often happens, or even slap. He was struck with a blunt object with the intention of injuring. Even worse! The elected official will officially seize the association of mayors of Gironde (AMG) so that it is civilian in the file.
“Never go alone”
Bernard Lauret, president of the AMG, is on the same line. “It is unacceptable that a person whose function is to enforce the law is thus attacked,” comments the one who is also mayor of Saint-Émilion. He saw the number of cases of threats, insults or assaults increase during the mandate towards these elected officials “within gap”, following the expression recently taken up by the mayor of Langon Jérôme Guillem. The cases are multiplying, in Saint-Philippe d’Aiguille, Saint-Macaire, Targon, Bieujac … Conflictual situations will never disappear “but you should never go alone”, he insists at the length of meeting.
Anthony Rolland, for the time being, continues emails and phone calls to cancel his appointments. “I cannot appear before people in this state. The man has passed a scanner of the emergency room. He is waiting to know the opinion of doctors for a possible surgical intervention.
