Agnès Cerighelli, former elected representative of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) was taken into police custody for a tweet against the mayor, Arnaud Pericard, whom he deemed defamatory.
Published on May 23, 20 at 11:12
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Agnès Cerighelli, former elected representative of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), was placed in police custody, Tuesday May 19, from 10 a.m. Until 1 p.m., she had to answer questions from a police captain at the police station who had before her the complaint of the city’s mayor, Arnaud Pericard; a complaint filed for remarks defamatory towards him, written on Twitter in December 2019, as the newspaper says The Parisian.
In this tweet, Agnès Cerighelli spoke of a “collusion” with a Muslim association which has a project the construction of a mosque in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She had spoken of “betrayal” of the city councilor. She is counterattacking today and says “she fought against the building of a mosque in the city” as part of “the municipal election campaign”.
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I consider that the city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is one of the cradles of French catholicity. It was here that Louis XIII made a vow to France, which he committed to consecrate his kingdom to Our Lady (the Virgin Mary). On February 10, 1638, he signed and published the solemn text of an edict of consecration at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. “
Since March 21, the former elected official’s Twitter account has been closed following numerous comments deemed defamatory or homophobic on the social network. She was condemned earlier this year by the Versailles Criminal Court.
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“Arnaud Pericard criticizes me for a tweet, which has disappeared since that date and which had no impact on the municipal elections since he was elected in the first round. With this complaint, we wanted to humiliate me! “
Considering this police custody disproportionate to the alleged facts, she recalls the context of the tweet written in late 2019. “As part of the electoral campaign, everything can be said. I denounced the collusion between Arnaud Pericard and the Muslim association. More broadly, given its history, Saint-Germain-en-Laye is not obliged to build a mosque. I repeat, this city has a historical link with Catholicism like all the cities which bear the name “saint”, and I oppose that a mosque could be built there. “
“Saint-Germain-en-Laye is the little Vatican of the Yvelines! “
The former elected official who was for a time, deputy mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye during the 2014 election when Emmanuel Lamy was mayor, goes further and speaks of an “Islamization of France encouraged by the construction of mosques” .
“I consider that the Republic is secular and that France is Christian. She is the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church. The President of the Republic has the title of Lateran Canon, it is not nothing! I even go further, I consider that Saint-Germain-en-Laye is the little Vatican of the Yvelines! “
The title of “first and only honorary canon of the Lateran basilica” goes back (again) to royalty and Louis XI. It was reactivated by King Henry IV, who, after having renounced his Protestant religion and received the papal absolution, donated the Benedictine Abbey of Clairac (Lot-et-Garonne) to the Lateran. In exchange, he received this canonical title, subsequently awarded to the heads of state.
For the mayor, Arnaud Pericard, bored by the tweets of the former elected official who do not correspond to the image of the town, “too much is too much! ” “These words were as infamous as they were appalling,” he reacted to our colleagues at the Parisien, earlier this week.
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