Pierre-Christophe Baguet, mayor (Les Républicains) of Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), temporarily withdrew his functions as elected official after a stormy municipal council on the evening of Thursday March 13, where he said he was “Implicated”said the municipality.
Facing a “Humanly unacceptable and under the eye of television cameras convened by the opposition, the mayor has been, causing a general disorder”explained the city on its X account, specifying that Mr. Baguet “Deeply regrets this sad situation” and that, “In order to think, he decides to temporarily withdraw his functions”.
The municipal council was tense at the time of the presentation by an elected environmentalist of the opposition of a wish, relating to the redevelopment of a path in this city of some 120,000 inhabitants, southwest of Paris.
This project is carried by a man whose son, Adam, was fatally struck there in 2021 by a cleaning truck from a service provider of the city, while he removed a bicycle from a Vélib ‘station.
Particular context
In a message on X, the city of Boulogne highlights the particular context in which the municipal council was held. M. Baguet, “In the aftermath of the birthday of his son who died in 2018, was accused in the afternoon of the death the day before a municipal agent and the same evening by the opposition to the municipal council of the death of a young Boulonnais cyclist three years ago”says the municipality.
During the council, the elected ecologist Pauline Rapilly Ferniot proposed to the father of Adam, present in the room, to speak on this subject – against the regulations, which prohibits any third party from expressing themselves during a municipal council.
The mayor recalled it to order. “No names of birds, but it is mounted quickly in (…) volume “said Laurent Molard, advisor (socialist party), before Adam’s father was “Evacuated by security” in the “Brouhaha” And that Mr. Wand suspended the session to exchange with him aside. According to municipal councilors, the mayor has not returned to attend the Council.
“This is the story of an ambush in full municipal council”
“It is the story of an ambush in full municipal council that makes the mayor fall in the aftermath of the birthday of his deceased son”reported the majority in a press release.
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“Perhaps the mayor has misunderstood, but we do not say that the city is responsible for the accident [dans lequel est mort Adam]it is just said that the city has a responsibility not to change the development of the place to make it more secure ”explained Mr.me Rapilly Ferniot, interviewed by AFP.
Two independent journalists, present to film a sequence on Adam’s father for France 2, said they were attacked “By security agents”.
“I was put on the ground violently”testified Nicolas Vescovacci, believing that we had tried to erase his images. The journalist filed a complaint, consulted by AFP, for physical threat, aggravated violence in a meeting, hinders press freedom and freedom to inform, and degradation of video equipment.