Without a protective mask against the coronavirus, they could not bear to be refused entry to a fast-food restaurant in Agde, in the Hérault. Five vacationers, who attacked McDonald’s employees, were jailed for “meeting violence,” the Béziers prosecutor announced on Saturday. The five men, aged 18 and 19, were part of a group of friends of ten people living in the Paris region and who came to spend holidays in Agde.
Tuesday evening, vacationers attacked two employees of the fast-food restaurant who were trying to enforce the health security rules put in place in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic. The manager and the employee who came to help him were allegedly punched and kicked, according to Noon Free. “The medical examination of the two victims” retained “for each a total incapacity for work at 5 days”, said the prosecutor, Raphaël Balland, in a press release.
One of them was filming the scene
All the members of the group were arrested by the police and placed in police custody, and five of them were identified “as being directly involved in the violence committed,” said the prosecutor: four for having carried out and the fifth for filming the scene.
The five young men will be tried Monday before the criminal court of Béziers in immediate appearance. Among them, three “have been or are currently the subject of criminal proceedings not yet tried in other jurisdictions for acts of violence”, according to the prosecutor.
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