The assault could be related to his duties.
Salah Lounici, general manager of the social landlord AB Habitat in Val-d'Oise and former director of ICF Habitat La Sablière for Val-de-Marne and Essonne, was violently assaulted as he left his home in Boissy-Saint-Léger (Val-de-Marne).
The facts were as rapid as they were violent.
Monday morning, around 6:30 am, the 50-year-old was leaving his accommodation and joining his car to go to his place of work, in Bezons, when two men appeared out of nowhere in his direction.
They started beating him with an iron bar.
The man was injured, especially in the arms and legs.
Neither his car nor his wallet was stolen
The criminals did not steal any property from him.
Neither his wallet, nor his phone, nor his vehicle.
The investigation does not exclude that the profession of Salah Lounici is at the origin of this attack.
He filed a complaint.
This former municipal councilor of Périgny-sur-Yerres wonders if his attackers perhaps also wanted to steal his car.
According to our information, he has now been released from the hospital.
Salah Lounici has been running AB Habitat since April 2018. This HLM cooperative is one of the main social landlords in Val-d'Oise, with almost 12,000 housing units distributed between Argenteuil and Bezons.
It employs 260 people and accommodates nearly 30,000 people, for 25,425 housing applications registered at the end of 2019.
The vast majority of tenants live in political priority areas of the city.
To fight against noise, squats, noise and trafficking, AB habitat signed in 2019 - like other lessors - an agreement with the police to facilitate the eviction of tenants disturbing the tranquility of the residences.
A call to find the culprits quickly
Support reactions multiply around the director.
Dominique Lesparre, president of AB Habitat and former mayor (PCF) of Bezons, published a video on Tuesday in which he “severely condemns” this “incomprehensible violence”.
He is counting on “the police and justice to quickly find the aggressors and punish them.
We believe that, on an attack of this nature, there must be traces and elements allowing the police and the justice system to find the instigators of such acts ”.
Fiona Lazaar, Member of Parliament (LREM) of the 5th constituency of Val-d'Oise, was able to join Salah Lounici.
She condemns “with the greatest firmness this odious aggression and calls for light to be shed very quickly on the circumstances of this tragedy.
Those responsible must be held accountable for their actions to justice ”.