Gilles Bourdouleix freshly reelected Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) and MP (ex-IDUs) mayor, was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 12, to a fine of EUR 3 000. The Court of Appeals Angers had to decide on about the elected had said in July 2013 during an altercation on agricultural land of its common illegally occupied by more than a hundred caravans of people travel, elected target of Nazi salutes and accusations of racism, had slipped to a journalist: “Hitler can not be killed enough” of Travellers
Indicted for “apology for crime against humanity” , the elect was initially sentenced to 3 000 suspended fine by the Criminal Court of Angers. Three months before the municipal elections, he had appealed the judgment, considering himself innocent to the context in which these remarks were made. He faced a sentence of five years imprisonment and a 45,000 euro fine.
HOSTILE REPEATED IN RESPECT OF TRAVELLERS
Related tomorrow by the regional daily The Western Courier , his words had caused an uproar in the headquarters of political parties. The frames of the Union of Independent Democrats (UDI) and Jean-Louis Borloo, then president of the centrist party, had condemned the remarks and demanded the expulsion of Mr Bourdouleix policy formation. It had overtaken and resigned.
The elected many times made about him for his hostility against Travellers. In 2006, he launched a petition to the 36,500 mayors of France, claiming that these elected officials have authority to require the State Police to respond to an illegal occupation.
The legal troubles for Mr. Bourdouleix however, did not prevent his re-election at the head of the municipality of Cholet. Candidate to succeed him in the last municipal election, the mayor was at the head of a list composed mostly of the outgoing municipal team. Member (unregistered) of the Parliamentary Opposition, Mr. Bourdouleix once past media fire, benefited from the leniency of the UMP and the UDI.
Without officially support the Leaders of both parties have nevertheless opened up the way to a fourth consecutive term, taking care to not invest any candidate for the conquest of the municipality of Cholet. The outgoing mayor was easily re-elected with over 55% of the vote in the second round
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