A French mayor gave the Hitler salute during a city council meeting. Philippe Gaudin may have been accused of collaborating with right-wing extremists in the past. After the incident he spoke of it as an ‘unfortunate gesture’.
Philippe Gaudin is mayor of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, a municipality south of Paris with about 30,000 inhabitants. On Saturday he gave the Hitler salute twice in a heated city council meeting about the budget. An opposition politician is said to have previously accused Gaudin of conspiring with right-wing extremists in the past.
“Wood, no gesture of solidarity”
For him it was more of a whim, not a gesture of solidarity, the mayor said after the incident. His colleagues in the city council see it differently: “You have to put it all together: this is an anti-Semitic act,” said deputy mayor Emmanuelly Gougougnan-Zadigue.
Here you can see a message from the deputy mayor about the incident.
Some called for Gaudin’s resignation. It was said that he had sullied the values of the republic and committed misconduct for years. The mayor does not belong to a specific party, but can be considered part of the political right. Now it is the turn of the legal system.
Source: Krone
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