2023-05-07 02:29:18
A refusal of priority, and two seriously injured. According to our information, confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office, Hugo Zemmour, the eldest son of Éric Zemmour, was arrested and placed in police custody, suspected of having provoked, while he had consumed alcohol, a traffic accident which seriously injured two people, this Saturday morning, in the sixth arrondissement of Paris.
The facts took place shortly after 7 a.m., at the corner of rue Cassette and rue de Vaugirard. According to the first elements, the son of the leader of the Reconquest party! would have, at the wheel of his car, refused priority to a scooter. The driver of the two-wheeler and his passenger, seriously injured in the legs, were immediately taken care of by the emergency services. They were respectively transported to the Kremlin-Bicêtre University Hospital (Val-de-Marne) and to the Beaujon Hospital (Hauts-de-Seine).
A “spectacular accident”
Eric Zemmour’s son was not injured. He was taken to the European Hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris (15th arrondissement) in order to undergo samples. Before being taken to the 13th arrondissement, to the premises of the Judicial Accident Treatment Service (STJA), seized of the investigations. There, he was placed in police custody for “involuntary injuries resulting in an ITT of more than three months, aggravated by alcohol levels and the manifest violation of a particular obligation of prudence or security”, indicates the prosecution.
Contacted, the LR mayor of the 6th arrondissement, Jean-Pierre Lecoq, did not wish to make a statement. After the accident, the city councilor thanked the municipal police and the city’s cleanliness services on Twitter for “intervening after this spectacular accident”, posting a striking photo of the disaster.
Eldest son of the former candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Hugo Zemmour studied law, before obtaining a master’s degree in the history of Africa, the Maghreb and the Middle East, at the University Panthéon Assas in Paris. . Attracted like his father by politics, the young man became a parliamentary assistant in 2016. He was then project manager in the Senate, between September and December 2020, for the group of the Centrist Union (UC).
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