In July, the elected official had insulted security guards as well as festival volunteers who asked him to present his health pass.
Christian Troadec, mayor of Carhaix (Finistère) and vice-president of the Brittany region, was sentenced Thursday by the Brest criminal court to a fine of 1,500 euros for public insults in July 2021 towards a volunteer at the Vieilles Charrues festival. At the beginning of February, the public prosecutor’s office requested a fine of 2,500 euros, namely the same amount as the fine which had been imposed on him within the framework of a criminal order, a rapid procedure which allows the public prosecutor’s office to request a sentence subsequently validated by a judge, without debate. But the elected regionalist opposed his conviction on February 21. He was summoned yesterday before the criminal court of Brest.
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The facts date back to July 16, 2021, in the evening. Christian Troadec had gone with relatives to the site of the festival, which he co-founded in 1992 and of which he was president until 2001. According to testimonies, he was drunk and would have insulted security agents as well only volunteers who asked him to present his health pass. He was found guilty of publicly insulting the only volunteer who filed a complaint against him. “You are a collaborator, if you were born in 40 you would be behind the gun”he would have told her.
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Throughout the hearing, the various left-wing mayor of the small town in central Brittany denied the facts, claiming to be the victim of a “set-up” and recalling theheavy different» which opposes him to Jean-Luc Martin, the president of the Vieilles Charrues festival.
Christian Troadec is at the center of a lively controversy after the organization of an evening in December 2021 qualified by his opponents as“orgy”. She was held in a small committee in the village hall which was to host the traditional end-of-year meal, canceled at the last moment.