An investigation was opened on 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, injured with a knife, told AFP the parquet floor of Créteil.
Around 10:30 p.m. Friday, elected officials from this town 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.
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 hit him with three stab wounds in the thigh, he said. the floor.
The group of attackers launched "
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, told AFP the mayor (PCF) of the city, Philippe Bouyssou.
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,
" wrote 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 Créteil prosecutor's office entrusted the investigation to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
