An investigation was opened after a fight in Niort (Deux-Sèvres) following which the deputy of Val-d’Oise, the former LREM Aurélien Taché was accused of having insulted the police. The city prosecutor’s office opened an investigation, while specifying that the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) had “not filed a complaint”.
For its part, the Alliance union denounces “a new slippage of an elected representative of the Republic”, announcing however in a press release Wednesday that a complaint had been filed by the DDSP of Deux-Sèvres.
According to Le Point, Aurélien Taché was attacked in a bar in his hometown on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, then allegedly insulted the agents of the Anti-Crime Brigade called to intervene. “You are shitty baggers,” the deputy would have said in particular, according to police officers quoted by the weekly.
Two days of ITT for the deputy
The SGP police unit union in Niort will “at least ask for a public apology if the facts are proven”, declared its representative Pascal Valès to an AFP correspondent. Contacted by AFP, the deputy did not want to speak.
According to his lawyer Me Jade Dousselin, Aurélien Taché “was the victim of an assault”, receiving “many blows, particularly to the head and face”, which earned him two days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT). “These words, the violence of which he can only regret, were spoken (…) while he was in a state of stupefaction linked to the physical and psychological shock he had just suffered,” he said. she explains.
Elected MP for Val-d’Oise in June 2017 under the label La République en Marche, Aurélien Taché resigned from Emmanuel Macron’s party three years later, before founding the “New Democrats” party with other former walkers.