Four 17-year-old minors and a 19-year-old major suspected of assaulting the mayor of the rural town of Miribel-Les-Echelles (Isère) were taken into police custody on Wednesday August 5, AFP learned from the prosecution. from Grenoble.
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Their custody for " violence against the mayor of Miribel-Les-Echelles " will be extended until the evening, or even Thursday morning, said deputy prosecutor Boris Duffau. These five young people do not live in the small town of some 1,700 inhabitants located in the Chartreuse natural regional park, according to the prosecution. Some live in Moirans and Saint-Jean-de Moirans, about twenty kilometers from the scene of the attack.
Already known to justice
According to the regional daily Dauphiné Libéré , they are already known to the courts for various offenses. The assault took place on the evening of July 27. Williams Dufour, a 51-year-old city councilor, was in a meeting with two city councilors when he heard the sounds of scooters and then fireworks in the village square.
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The mayor, announcing his function, then asked the teenagers to " stop their nuisance ". The youngsters had not complied: one of them threatened Williams Dufour with fireworks, which sought to subdue him but was burned, while another hit him in the face, according to the reports. information from the prosecution. Slightly injured, Williams Dufour received seven days of ITT.
An investigation was then opened, conducted by the Meylan research brigade and the gendarmes of the Saint Laurent du Pont brigade. The aggression had made the government react, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin estimating on Twitter that “to attack a mayor is to attack the Republic ”. “ What struck me is that these young people hated me, even though we don't know each other! “, For his part confided the mayor to Dauphiné Libéré . But the city councilor, who is exercising his first mandate, had also assured not to “ feel discouraged by this incident ”.