by Akan Ido

An electrician in the northern French city of Caen has murdered and castrated the mayor for allegedly having an affair with his girlfriend.

The Mayor, Dominique Leboucher was said to have been fatally stabbed in the neck and later castrated by the 39-year-old jealous man.

Leboucher’s wife however says she does not believe her husband is cheating on her.

Residents of the small town of just over 250 people say it appeared like an act of madness on the part of the electrician who reportedly committed suicide after committing the horrific crime.

“I do not believe this thing about infidelity at all,” said Yannick Guesnon, one of the mayor’s deputies, adding that the attack appeared to be “an act of madness.”

Albert Gibot, a pensioner in the village said the attacker, a father of two, had “blown a fuse as his partner used to attend meetings of the local council in the evenings.”

The mayor, who worked in insurance sales, first became a councillor in 2001 before taking up the post of deputy mayor in 2008. He was elected mayor in March’s municipal elections.