It was a year ago. For the victim’s loved ones, the pain is still omnipresent, but Mathieu seems to have moved on. On October 4, 2023, around 11 p.m., Mathieu Mas, alderman in Oudenaarde, got behind the wheel of his car even though he had consumed alcohol and he drove, he drove fast. And in this madness, he hits a cyclist named Owen, 22 years old. Help is called but it is already too late for the young man who dies. Mathieu, caught in the turmoil, then take a step aside politically.
But shortly after, he decided to backtrack. After being conditionally released and after a few months of waiting, and when he had been replaced on the municipal council, he made the decision to return to politics. Barely three months after the tragedy, the young man’s parents were devastated, “he made our lives hell.”
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Even if Mathieu Mas remains discreet, he makes his way back into politics and becomes an alderman again “to finish the files in progress”. But he is still running for the municipal elections in October 2024. Not at the top of the list, “out of respect for the bereaved families” he says. But for him, it works. At the polls this Sunday, nearly 2,000 people voted for him. Which makes him the favorite candidate for mayor of Oudenaarde.
The alderman who killed Owen, 22, in an accident returns to politics three months after the tragedy: the young man’s parents devastated, “he made our lives hell”
Mathieu celebrated this victory “calmly” with “repressed joy”, explains the Nieuwsblad. But he could very likely become mayor of his city, barely a year after causing this fatal accident. “It’s his big dream. He says he is proud that the inhabitants of Oudenaarde support his new project.” “Will I become mayor? We will see it in the next two weeks. In any case, I am the first in my party,” he said.
A situation that particularly displeases Owen’s family: “His place is not on the public stage. However, the citizens seem to have forgiven him for his serious sin: even if he was not at the head of the list, no one is currently closer to the city hall than him,” we read in the Nieuwsblad. The family declined to comment further.
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