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After the publication of a video of the Toulouse Youtuber Papacito attacking Christian Eurgal, the lawyer for the mayor of Montjoi Thierry Deville calls for a rapid and strong reaction from justice and the State.
The day after our revelations concerning the death threats against the mayor of Montjoi since the broadcast on May 22 of a video by Youtuber Papacito (our June 1 edition), several elected officials from the department in shock, wanted to react. Among them, Thierry Deville who in addition to being the first deputy of Brigitte Barèges and of the urban community of Montauban, is also the lawyer of Christian Eugal.
“It’s a more serious matter than it seems, my client is terrified”, assures the former president confirming to have filed a complaint against the Toulouse influencer, and pig farmer Pierre-Guillaume Mercadal.
The latter is behind these clips seen more than 420,000 times attacking the mayor, and a British national who owns a house in the town with whom the farmer, his neighbor, has been in dispute for 5 years. on the access of a rural road. “I am very worried, this is a file that will end badly if justice does not put a stop to it quickly”, certifies Me Thierry Deville exasperated that “the elected officials and their families are taken as scapegoats”.
Christian Eurgal and Me Thierry Deville after the conviction of the pig farmer before the Montauban court
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Recalling the “Tarn-et-Garonne jurisprudence” after the sentencing this winter to 2 months in prison with a warrant of committal of an individual who threatened the mayor of Lafrancaise and his family, the Montalban lawyer calls “for a strong and rapid response of Justice. »
In the prefecture, this affair is “closely followed by the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne who regularly takes news from the mayor”, confirms his director of cabinet Émilie Saussine. Vincent Roberti also went last week to Montjoi to support the city councilor. Following these events, “a video protection device will be installed in the town”, adds the sub-prefect.
Since the publication of Papacito, dozens of graffiti entitled “Eurgal, weasel of Montjoi”, mark the mayor’s house on departmental roads up to 30 km around Montjoi. Tags that have not been without consequence. Last Wednesday, two 23-year-old Lot-et-Garonnais who had seen Papacito’s video, climbed on the pediment of the town hall to fly the tricolor flag. They were given a three-month suspended prison sentence.
The damage of the degradations committed on the house of Roderick Sinclair, neighbor of the pig farmer of Montjoi
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Two days later, the house of the breeder’s resident, Roderick Sinclair, was defaced with a bucket of red paint. Not to mention the numerous death threats launched on social networks, and even more serious, the mayor’s detractors have managed to reference the location of “the weasel’s house” on Google when you type the keyword Montjoi on the search engine. of research.
