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The mayor Les Républicains of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne), Vincent Jeanbrun (left), and his chief of staff, Clément Forestier, July 11, 2023. BRUNO FERT FOR “THE WORLD”
Vincent Jeanbrun invites you to step back a few meters and raise your head. “Look from here, you hardly see the sky anymore with these staggered spaced towers. They seem to form one and the same building. » He grew up in one of those brown towers. He shows the floor (the 17th), the window of his bedroom, and evokes the joys of collective heating when he and his family “I slept[en]t windows open in winter ». The mayor Les Républicains (LR) of L’Haÿ-les-Roses draws a lot from this childhood to tell about his neighborhood and his city, a working-class suburb of Val-de-Marne cut in two by the A6.
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Since the night of July 1 to 2, its history has gone beyond the local framework, and its notoriety with it. At 39, this son of a delivery driver and a stay-at-home mother of Italian origin has become a symbol after the attack on his home one evening of a riot. That of elected officials on the front line against violence. A ram car on fire is then thrown against his house. His wife escapes through the back of the garden with their two young children amid mortar fire. In her escape, she seriously injured her leg. At the same time, Mr. Jeanbrun watches over his barricaded town hall, fearing to see it destroyed or burned. The Créteil prosecutor’s office is currently investigating for “attempted murder”. Twelve people were taken into custody on July 12, before being released the next day, without prosecution at this stage.
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Sunday, July 2, France discovers Vincent Jeanbrun at “20 hours” of TF1. A few weeks earlier, the person concerned told his new role as spokesperson for LR. Invitations to TV sets were still rare. “Politics is a matter of looks and opportunity. And Vincent has both”points out his friend Pierre-Henri Dumont, LR deputy for Pas-de-Calais. “Today, he embodies something that goes beyond himcontinues Zartoshte Bakhtiari, LR mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne, city of Seine-Saint-Denis very affected by the riots. Despite the circumstances, I was happy to hear him on TF1 carry the word of the elected representatives of the suburbs, recount this violence that has become inconceivable. »
In the Lallier district, in L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne), July 11, 2023. BRUNO FERT FOR “THE WORLD”
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On the right, others are annoyed to see him in “one” of the Point, erected as a new hero of the Republic. “Politics is not the casting of the ‘New Star'”, blows a party cadre. The ambitions would be as broad as the shoulders in the former American football player. Despite these tensions, on July 3, the entire staff of the Republicans rushed to L’Haÿ-les-Roses for the march in support of the city councilor and his family. In the front row, Eric Ciotti applauds the speech of his spokesperson, between firmness and exaltation to defend the Republic “terribly threatened”. But nothing on “uncontrolled immigration”the workhorse of the president of LR.
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