Loire: a mayor found dead on his property after burning – Le Figaro

Jean-Marc Thélisson, mayor of Saint-Héand, was 69 years old. The prosecution ordered toxicological and anatomopathological analyses, as well as an autopsy. The mayor of Saint-Héand (Loire) was found dead Friday evening in a wooded area of ​​​​this town where he had just carried out a burning, we learned on Saturday from the gendarmerie and the parquet floor of Saint-Etienne. Jean-Marc Thélisson, 69, “was found dead by his son worried about his absence and came to meet him” shortly after 7 p.m., André Merle, deputy public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, told AFP. The prosecution ordered “toxicological and anatomopathological analyses, as well as an autopsy” to determine the cause of death as part of the investigation into “search for the causes of death” entrusted to the gendarmerie. The elected official lay motionless on the heights of the town in a wooded plot belonging to him that he had come to clear and on which he had burned. Read alsoInsults, assaults, death threats … Violence against elected officials explodes Mayor LR of Saint-Etienne Gaël Perdriau hailed in a press release the memory of this former commercial director in the agricultural sector “defining himself with left-wing sensitivity », opposition municipal councilor for 31 years before being elected mayor of his commune in 2014. One of the last public appearances of the mayor of Saint-Héand took place last week, on the occasion of the reception in his group of dancers from the kyiv Opera Ballet unable to return to their country after a three-month tour of Europe. SEE ALSO – Violence against elected officials: Richard Ferrand wants “communities to be able to bring civil parties”