{"id":9609,"date":"2026-03-13T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/sordid-allegations-cloud-municipal-election-in-nice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:27:03","slug":"sordid-allegations-cloud-municipal-election-in-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/sordid-allegations-cloud-municipal-election-in-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sordid allegations cloud municipal election in Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Christian Estrosi, at a press conference in Nice, on March 12, 2026.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">VALERY HACHE\/AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The municipal election duel in Nice, between incumbent mayor Christian Estrosi (Horizons, center-right) and Eric Ciotti, an ally of the far-right Rassemblement National, was always expected to be ruthless, as the pair are long-standing rivals. Yet, ahead of the first round of voting, the latest scandal in Nice, involving a severed pig&#8217;s head, a former counter-espionage agent and suspicions of infiltration, has brought the controversy in a campaign marred by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2026\/03\/13\/sordid-allegations-cloud-municipal-election-in-nice_6751416_7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Estrosi, at a press conference in Nice, on March 12, 2026. VALERY HACHE\/AFP The municipal election duel in Nice, between incumbent mayor Christian Estrosi (Horizons, center-right) and Eric Ciotti,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3051,3263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-politique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}