2023-08-21 14:27:35
The list of elected officials attacked in the exercise of their function continues to grow. The mayor of L’Houmeau, Jean-Luc Algay, says he was attacked by one or more members of a group of travelers on Saturday early afternoon, trying to prevent them from settling on the ground municipal football club in this town in the La Rochelle conurbation, with approximately 3,000 inhabitants.
A flagrant investigation has been opened to find the alleged perpetrator, the prosecution said on Monday, confirming information from the newspaper. South West. “We are looking for an attacker, who punched in the stomach and knocked the mayor down. His identification is in progress, ”said the deputy prosecutor of La Rochelle, Soraya Ahras.
Twelve days of ITT
Jean-Luc Algay recounted the course of the attack. After advising them to go to the high traffic area of the agglomeration of La Rochelle, “which they refused”, “a guy of thirty – I’m sixty – belted me in the face then in the chest and I started to receive blows before being thrown against a car”, he testified.
“I gasped and fell to the ground. There, they filmed me saying “the mayor is on the ground” as if I were prey, “added the elected official, injured in the ribs and who was prescribed a temporary interruption of work for twelve days.
Plan to strengthen the protection of elected officials
According to his account, the attackers then took fright and left before the arrival of the gendarmerie. The latter received her complaint “Sunday afternoon before transmitting the file to the La Rochelle research brigade”, explained the communicating officer of the gendarmerie, Lieutenant-Colonel Sébastien Letellier. “Residents filmed the whole scene,” assured Jean-Luc Algay.
On July 7, the Minister for Local Authorities Dominique Faure detailed a plan of five million euros to strengthen the protection of elected officials, without however managing to convince them, a few days after the car-ram attack on the home. of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne).
The first measures of this plan had already been announced shortly after the arson of the home of the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique), who has since resigned.
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