The comments of Grenoble Mayor Eric Piolle about the city’s municipal employee killed on Sunday have sparked strong criticism. In reality, his words were not understood.
Eric Piolle is facing a controversy that continues to grow on social networks. The mayor of Grenoble is facing strong criticism after speaking out about the city’s municipal agent, who died from his injuries after being shot twice in the chest on Sunday morning. He was trying to restrain a reckless driver, responsible for a road accident in Grenoble, who then shot him.
In response to this settling of scores, Eric Piolle declared: “No one is safe from a stray bullet in the settling of scores. That’s our fear. This is not the subject here because it’s a traffic accident. He didn’t shoot a dealer but someone who came to help him,” as he insisted on X, this Sunday. But since then, social networks have gone wild and the beginning of his reaction “no one is safe from a stray bullet in the settling of scores”, was taken out of context, notably in an 11-second video, which represents only part of his statement on BFMTV. In reality, the mayor was answering another question.
This is why the mayor of Grenoble tried to put out the fire on RMC on Monday, September 9: “It’s the fachosphere that is distorting my words since there was a question about settling scores and I said: ‘Our fear as mayors is a stray bullet for an innocent person. And, here, we are not in the context of settling scores. The fachosphere is getting inflamed, ok, it’s their life. But we are not in that context,” he explains.
Problem, the sentence of the mayor of Grenoble gave rise to several subjects, chronicles, and live reactions on the different sets of the news channels, Sunday evening and this Monday morning. This Monday, on BFMTV, the LR mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi was the guest of Apolline de Malherbe in the program “Face à face”. “Everyone knows that Eric Piolle is a mayor who is not necessarily security-oriented, authoritarian, he only talks about prevention (…) I am a little shocked when, concerning an agent, of your community, of which you must be your first defender, I am first at their side and I demand the most total impunity”, declared Estrosi in particular.
““The denial of reality by this left is criminal!” writes RN MEP Aleksandar Nikolic on X.Eric Piolle’s comments that “no one would be safe from a stray bullet” are unacceptable. It was a cleaning worker who was coldly shot while trying to prevent a reckless driver from fleeing,” commented Christian Estrosi on X. For his part, the senator for Saône-et-Loire Jérôme Durain (Socialist, Ecologist and Republican Group), tried to come to the aid of the councilor, still on the same social network: “The trial of Eric Piolle is pathetic. Shame on the elected officials who relay such nonsense. If they wanted to be useful to the security of our country they would attack the criminals and not the mayors who are on the front line against crime.”