French election: Observer gets into fight with polling station chairman

WORLD  30 June 2024 - 15:12

The fight between the observer and the chairman of the polling station occurred before the opening of voting in the first round of parliamentary elections in the south of France.

This was reported by the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, Caliber.Az reports, citing Russian media.

"I condemn in the strongest terms the physical attack on the chairman of the polling station at the Bomet school by the observer appointed by [Republican party leader Eric] Ciotti, who tried to prevent the opening of the polling station and then hit the chairman," the Nice mayor wrote in X (formerly Twitter).

As specified by Nice-Matin newspaper, the observer was trying to challenge the composition of the electoral commission at polling station number 16 in the school of Bomet in the west of Nice and opposed the opening of the polling station. After an altercation and a fight with the chairman of the commission, he was detained by police officers.

Ciotti himself promptly "expressed his support for the president of the polling station," condemning the observer's violence and calling his behavior "clearly inappropriate." "We immediately expelled him from the delegation," the politician added.

Caliber.Az