Bagneux: end of the legislative campaign agitated between Nupes and Ensemble poster stickers

A few stitches just before the truce preceding the first round of the legislative elections… On Friday shortly before midnight, marking the end of the electoral campaign, a meeting between opposing poster pasters degenerated into a fight in Bagneux, one of the three municipalities of the 11th district. with Montrouge and Malakoff. A Nupes activist was beaten by a supporter of the outgoing MP Together, Laurianne Rossi.

The facts took place on avenue Pasteur, shortly before midnight. “As is often the case, we will put up posters just before the end of the campaign. When activists from another formation or another candidate are already there, the custom is that we share the panel in question, ”explains Aurélien Saintoul (LFI), the candidate for Nupes. The one who is also an opposition municipal councilor in Montrouge immediately condemned this attack and announced his intention to file a complaint.

“Perhaps he felt threatened…”

According to his version, Friday evening, three members of his team including a retiree and his daughter approach the panel. A poster gluer on assignment for Laurianne Rossi is already at work. “The tone rose immediately, he didn’t want to hear anything and was immediately threatening with a broomstick. He said you will not touch this panel “, declares Claire Gabiache the substitute Nupes who, she says, “attended the whole scene”.

The Together poster paster would then have struck a blow to the head of the 72-year-old pensioner. Assessment, heavy bleeding, a visit to the emergency room, a CT scan and five stitches. “Perhaps he felt threatened when he saw our three activists arrive,” says Aurélien Saintoul.

On the side of Renaissance (ex-LREM), we have a diametrically opposed version. “Our activist found himself alone with eight people, assures Laurianne Rossi. They threatened and molested him, so he tried to protect himself. He wanted to defend himself but never wanted to hurt anyone. This Saturday, he is deeply shocked and in turn filed a complaint for physical and verbal threats. »

At the prefecture, we relativize and qualify this outbreak of fever as a simple “dispute between poster gluers”.