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Homophobic slippage taints a tense campaign end


The Capitol, seat of power of the mayor of Toulouse. – Béatrice Colin / 20 Minutes

Over time, the second round campaign municipal elections tensed
In Toulouse where according to the latest polls, Antoine Maurice, the environmental candidate of the Citizen Archipelago list who made the union of the left, is given little victory before the outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR, supported by LREM). Friday, two days before the election, François Piquemal, fifth on Antoine Maurice’s list, announced that he had filed a complaint for “public insults”

Previously, in a press release, the Toulouse Ensemble Group of Jean-Luc Moudenc, had announced having “notified a layoff as a precautionary measure” and initiated “disciplinary proceedings” against one of its employees. The latter posted on the night of Thursday to Friday on “Facebook homophobic comments. This publication is totally unacceptable, “said Jean-Christophe Cheronnet, the group’s general secretary, in a press release.

An apology post on Facebook

The author of these words had deleted them from his Facebook account, in favor of a message that wanted to be soothing: “Last night I made here even unacceptable words that exceeded my thinking. I have since removed them. I apologize to François Piquemal and his head of the list, ”he said.

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