The events took place on Saturday January 22, on the sidelines of a demonstration against the health pass.
Three men were detained on Saturday and will be tried on Monday after the attack on LREM deputy Romain Grau last Saturday in Perpignan, by people demonstrating against the health pass, we learned from the prosecution. Two of them had been taken into custody on Thursday, before the arrest of a third person on Friday.
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The three men are prosecuted for violence without temporary incapacity for work (ITT) on a person responsible for a public service mission on the sidelines of a demonstration, threat to an elected official and contempt. They were placed in pre-trial detention pending trial on Monday in immediate appearance, the prosecution told AFP.
Taken to task
Deputy Romain Grau, elected in 2017, announced on Sunday that he had filed a complaint after “this intolerable violence“. The day before, while working on his duty with Guillem Gervilla, a parliamentary adviser to Éric Dupond-Moretti, “a horde of peoplecame towards them, tapping on the windows facing the street. The two men then came out to try to calm them down, but they “violently” been taken to task, according to Romain Grau, expressing “heavy insults” and a “punch on the chin“. “One of my neighbors stepped in and got slapped“, had explained the deputy to AFP. They were about 250 demonstrators, according to him.
In a video posted on Twitter by Guillem Gervilla, we see a man screaming “to death» and another shout «hey! did you vote it the pass?“. Another video circulating on social media shows dozens of people, some wearing yellow vests, repeating “collaborators» in the direction of Romain Grau and Guillem Gervilla.
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In July 2019, Romain Grau’s office in Perpignan was targeted by “yellow vestswho broke windows and tried to set fire to the room where the deputy was.
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