Sophie Dhoury-Lehner, maire PS leaving Creil (Oise) who arrived on Sunday at the head of the first round of municipal elections, confirmed Monday to AFP that he had benefited since Friday from a “close protection» after being the subject of death threats on social networks. Since Wednesday, a short video has been circulating on an anonymous Facebook account entitled “Creil I See Everything», combining an extract from a cartoon, photos of Sophie Dhoury-Lehner and the image of a masked man firing a handgun with this comment: “POV: you shoot live ammunition and you remain elusive».
«They have reached a milestone» with this video, estimated the outgoing mayor of Creil (36,000 inhabitants), claiming to have already suffered other online intimidation in recent weeks, notably with hijacked photos. She filed a complaint on Thursday against Parisian.
Sophie Dhoury-Lehner also said she obtained a pager connected to the Creil police station as part of this protection. The Senlis prosecutor, Loïc Abrial, announced that he had “opened a flagrant investigation against X for death threats against a person holding public authority”. “The investigations are entrusted to the local judicial police service at the Creil police station,” added the prosecutor.
