The home of the mayor LR of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, in Val-de-Marne, was attacked by a burning car-ram on the night of Saturday to Sunday, in the presence of his children and his wife injured in wanting to flee, facts which aroused unanimous condemnation from the government and the political class. An investigation was opened for attempted murder, indicated the prosecutor of Créteil, Stéphane Hardouin, who entrusted it to the departmental service of the judicial police.
“A milestone has been reached in horror and ignominy”
“Around 1:30 a.m., a burning vehicle entered the enclosure of the mayor’s pavilion of L’Haÿ-les-Roses” and was “stopped before reaching the veranda of the house, it seems by a low wall, so that only the entrance gate was affected as well as the family vehicle”, detailed the magistrate, during a press point in front of the house of the mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun (LR). “The first findings let us assume that the vehicle was launched to burn the flag,” said the prosecutor, arguing that “an accelerant was discovered in a bottle of coke” at the scene.
The mayor’s wife and her two children aged 5 and 7 were at home in the absence of Vincent Jeanbrun (LR), who was then at the Town Hall of his town of more than 30,000 inhabitants, in this fifth night of urban violence.
Hearing a noise and seeing flames, the woman and the two children fled through the garden at the back of the pavilion, according to the prosecutor. In her race, the wife “injured her tibia, it’s a fairly serious injury since it would be broken,” said Stéphane Hardouin. She was hospitalized, according to the mayor’s entourage. “These facts will be linked to the degradations and abuses committed on the town hall of L’Haÿ-les-Roses” during the two previous nights, estimated the prosecutor. “Given (their) extreme gravity”, the “qualification of attempted assassination was chosen by the prosecution”, and “everything will be done to confuse the perpetrators and bring them to justice”, he said. he rocks.
The mayor himself denounced in a statement posted on Twitter “an assassination attempt of unspeakable cowardice”. “Tonight, a milestone was reached in horror and ignominy,” he said. “While my priority today is to take care of my family, my determination to protect and serve the Republic is greater than ever,” he continued.
“Intolerable Facts”
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne spoke out against “intolerable facts”. “The culprits will be prosecuted with the greatest firmness,” Matignon said in a statement. “To attack the life of an elected official and that of his family is to attack the Nation”, tweeted the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR). “Public engagement should never be synonymous with danger, neither for oneself nor for those one loves”, for the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance).
On Twitter, the boss of the Republicans Eric Ciotti condemned “acts of extreme gravity which must lead their authors to the assize court”. “A new milestone has been reached,” tweeted the leader of the RN deputies Marine Le Pen.
In the presidential majority too, messages of support have poured in. “Congratulations for your courage and your determination to serve our fellow citizens! Let’s not let any violence, verbal or physical pass,” wrote the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire (ex-LR) to him. “To attack a mayor is to attack all of us, all citizens. The whole national community must say stop”, pleaded the Minister Delegate for the City Olivier Klein.
Also on the left, Marine Tondelier, head of EELV, assured that “ecologists give their fullest support to Vincent Jeanbrun”. “What he went through is unspeakable,” she tweeted. Commenting on the facts, MP LFI Clémentine Autain stressed the “absolute urgency to find political responses of justice and equality to appease”.