"Let's smash his face in": Frédéric V. and his networks, or the criminal spiral of a Freemason boss intoxicated by his omnipotence

Monday, October 10, 2016. Like every other day, Jean-François Le Helloco, elected representative for Val-de-Marne, leaves his house in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, his briefcase under one arm, his scooter helmet in the other. 8:20 a.m.: Around him, the well-to-do driveway along the banks of the Marne is still dozing, when two hooded men who were waiting for him, crouching behind the wall surrounding the house, appear. They throw the 44-year-old politician to the ground and pummel him with dozens of punches and kicks. "You have to stop, now you're not doing anything, you stay calm, we know where you live. Stay calm for your wife and your kids. We'll leave it at that for today," one of them warns him. His attackers photograph his swollen face. Alerted by the muffled sound of the blows, his wife sticks her head out the window. The two men run away.

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In Val-de-Marne politics, Helloco is one of those men who is feared. A pugnacious adversary, an expert in communication. He is the one who brought a fratricidal war to the town hall of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés four years earlier. In 2012, the town's elected official became the architect of a major schism within the local right, which allowed Sylvain Berrios, the protégé of then-mayor Henri Plagnol, to run against him in the municipal elections, then win the election in a chaotic three-way race on the right.

Saint-Maur's political life has always been marked by its violence, several of its observers whispered to Le Figaro today. His "limitless" underhandedness, his "smell of betrayal." So, when he filed a complaint at the town's police station on October 10, 2016, Le Helloco gave the police one certainty: his attack could only be the signature of his rivals, the defeated members of the "Plagnol clan." But one detail caught his attention. Why so late, two years after the municipal elections?

Behind the famous "clan" is a man with a powerful Freemason network who seems to enjoy stirring up fear in Saint-Maur. Frédéric V.. In 2012, this Annecy native with an atypical background settled in the Paris region. In his lodge, his charming character made him a prominent "brother." "Athanor" opened up new horizons for him. The networks of Parisian business leaders, and the even more exhilarating ones of security - his lodge is populated by police officers and former intelligence officers. At the time, the man...