The city councilor of this town in the metropolis of Nantes committed suicide by hanging inside the town hall on Friday.
The mayor of Rezé, a town of 42,000 inhabitants of the metropolis of Nantes, committed suicide by hanging inside the town hall, we learned on Friday from the Nantes prosecutor’s office. “There is no doubt about the suicide: he left letters for his relatives and instructions for the funeral,” the Nantes prosecutor’s office told AFP, adding that the judicial police had been seized of the investigation. Hervé Neau was 58 years old.
Former teacher and director of an elementary school in his city, Hervé Neau was elected mayor of Rezé in July 2020, after leading “Rezé citoyenne”, a dissident leftist list of the PS. The town hall has set up a psychological unit for municipal officials and elected officials. According to “Ouest-France”, his first deputy, Agnès Bourgeais, will act as mayor of Rezé.
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A committed and exemplary mayor
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“Terrible and overwhelming news. Hervé Neau was a committed and exemplary mayor. I am thinking of his relatives, and also of the entire municipal team and the agents of Rezé”, wrote on twitter the deputy of Maine-et-Loire Matthieu Orphelin . “All my thoughts go out to his family, the elected officials and the inhabitants of the city of Rezé”, posted LREM MP for Loire-Atlantique Valérie Oppelt on twitter.
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