An investigation was opened this Saturday for attempted voluntary homicide on a person holding public authority after the violent assault the day before a deputy mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine, wounded with a knife.
Around 10:30 p.m. Friday, elected officials from this commune of Val-de-Marne were leaving a match for the local handball team when they were the target of a “violent assault”, the town hall announced in a statement.
The three wounded hospitalized
One of them was taken to task by a dozen hooded people, “who hit him behind the head”, causing him to fall to the ground and then strike him with three stab wounds in the thigh, he said. the parquet floor of Créteil.
The group of aggressors made “threats saying You kill people, we will kill you“, added the same source.
Two relatives of this elected official, including another deputy in charge of the elderly, were slightly injured while trying to intervene. The group of ten people fled.
The elected official was the deputy in charge of youth, aged about thirty, said the mayor (PCF) of the city, Philippe Bouyssou.
A “cycle of violence”
Supported by the emergency services, the three injured were hospitalized briefly, “shocked”, added his chief of staff.
“According to the first testimonies collected, it seems that this event is part of the cycle of violence between young people from different neighborhoods which has been going on for too long months in Ivry”, writes the municipality in its press release.
She “condemns with anger this unacceptable violence” and calls “the authorities to take the measure of the gravity of these facts, which divide Ivry and its population”. The prosecution entrusted the investigation to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
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