“Everyone knows, but no one talks”: return to L’Escarène, where Jérémy was lynched

Pierre Donadey sighs wearily: “I hope you are the last. » With his gray beard encircling the lower part of his face, the mayor of L’Escarène looks like a hussar of the III^e Republic. This doctor says he has ” Fed up ” to be questioned about the death of Jérémy Dasylva, this news item which is looping on the news channels. “We were treated as blood relatives, racists! Last week, we found a body in a stairwell in Nice. Are people from Nice being said to be inbred and racist? »

In his office, a screen where the images taken by 19 CCTV cameras scroll. The mayor, however, claims to have ignored everything for several days. “The gendarmes informed me the following Sunday. I am saddened by all of this. There have always been fights, people who have drunk too much, as in all villages. But this kind of violence, vshas never happened here. »

The facts took place on Wednesday October 12, but they were not revealed until much later, on December 3, by ” Nice morning “. That day, the regional daily told a striking story: accused of having stolen a bank card and 45 euros from a retiree, Jérémy Dasylva, a 39-year-old man, was allegedly chased after nightfall by several residents, then lynched. He will die two days later at the Pasteur hospital in Nice, as a result of his injuries (including a perforation of the intestines).

“The village, of some 2,500 souls, has re