Question 17855 — elected officials

Summary

Mr. Olivier Fayssat draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the growing threats that criminal organizations pose to mayors and local elected officials engaged in the fight against drug trafficking. The situation recently experienced by the mayor of Alès, Mr. Christophe Rivenq, constitutes a particularly worrying illustration of this. After the discovery of tags at his home and two 9 millimeter caliber cartridges in his mailbox letters, accompanied by threats attributed to the DZ Mafia or one of its emanations, the elected official was placed under police protection, equipped with an alert button then exfiltrated from his home. Without prejudging the conclusions of the judicial investigation or the identity of their authors, these facts testify to a change of scale in the methods of intimidation used by criminal networks against representatives of the Republic. These Threats seem directly linked to the action taken by the municipality against the establishment of drug trafficking. They raise fears that mayors who refuse the influence of criminal networks on their municipality will now become targets, in the same way as magistrates, prison staff, police officers or specialized journalists. Law No. 2024-247 of March 21, 2024 strengthened the security and protection of local elected officials. The Ministry of the Interior has also developed the “Elected Security Pack”, a network of 3,400 representatives and the “Elected Alarm” system. These tools must nevertheless be evaluated with regard to threats emanating from structured, armed groups likely to act beyond their territory of origin. In 2024, 2,501 attacks against elected officials were recorded, including 250 physical attacks, with mayors representing 64% of victims. By elsewhere, the number of threat assessments linked to organized crime, established at 63 in 2025, could more than double in 2026. Consequently, he asks it to specify the number of mayors and local elected officials having been the subject, since 2024, of a threat assessment linked to drug trafficking or organized crime, as well as the number of protection or security measures actually granted. He also asks him to indicate the average time between the reporting of a threat, its assessment and the implementation of protection. Finally, he asks him if the Government intends to create a specific national protocol for elected officials threatened by criminal organizations, providing for immediate referral to the competent services, possibly the security of the home and municipal buildings, the protection of the family, or other measures to that no mayor is forced to give up his public action under pressure from mafia groups.

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