Wednesday November 20, in Lorient (Morbihan), two thirty-year-olds were sentenced to three months and six months in prison. They will also have to complete citizenship courses. What are they accused of? Have issued in June 2023, via social networks (Instagram, Messenger, Facebook essentially), insults and death threats against the mayor of Carnac, Olivier Lepick.
The Morbihan representative, whose family had also been the subject of threats, had to be placed under police protection for several days. National hysteria followed the affair of menhirs destroyed during a construction site for a DIY brand, for which the city councilor was targeted.
Apologies after threats
Olivier Lepick, encouraged by the association of mayors of Morbihan, filed a civil suit. Contacted by West Francehe indicates having transmitted at the time to the investigators “Screenshots of the most serious threats. Here, the police identified two men. In this sad case, around ten others could have similar sentences. »
He takes note of the « excuses » written by one of the two convicted persons, present at the hearing in the form of the guilty plea. The second defendant, absent, was punished more heavily by the criminal court. On the merits of this file, Olivier Lepick regretted, Wednesday, on his page Facebook, what“violence, threats” do “now part of the life of a mayor”.
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