The Post Office of Épinay-sous-Sénart (Essonne) will not reopen until Monday. A measure decided after the attack on one of the employees on February 1st. That day, a client of the Postal Bank enters a few minutes before the lunch break. The 29-year-old man comes to collect a RIB. In front of him, the agent in charge of his file informs him that his account is closed. In a black anger, the thirty-something then punches him in the face. “He was annoyed so he attacked the staff,” summarizes a source close to the investigation. “The agent was hospitalized”, we inform at La Poste.
The individual is not unknown to the employees. “Last December, he had already threatened the team with a garden tool. The employees were very shocked, we continue. A procedure had been launched to close his account. »
This Wednesday, he took action. The other agents, who witnessed the scene, immediately alerted the Val d’Yerres police officers. Upon their arrival, the latter encountered difficulties in channeling the individual. “He was very virulent verbally,” said a source familiar with the matter. The young man ends up being arrested and is immediately placed in police custody at the local police station. “We have set up a psychological unit and listening and emergency support,” says La Poste, which filed a complaint.
Placed under judicial supervision pending trial
Contacted this Friday, the Évry-Courcouronnes prosecutor’s office indicates that the man was referred this Thursday for “contempt and violence against a person responsible for a public service mission with a total interruption of work of less than eight days”. His hearing having been postponed, he will be tried in July. According to our information, he is only known to justice for an old fact.
Pending his trial, the defendant was placed under judicial supervision with the obligation to undergo treatment, a ban on appearing at La Poste d’Épinay-sous-Sénart, on contacting the victim agent and on holding or to carry a weapon.
“Attacking the agents who bring essential services to the inhabitants is as cowardly as it is inexcusable. All the reasons for the attacks are inexcusable, ”reacts Damien Allouch, the mayor (PS) of this town of 12,000 inhabitants.