Four agents from the Office public de l'habitat (OPH) in Aubervilliers were attacked in a week by hooded people, a series of attacks which follows mysterious threats, the town hall of this town reported on Friday January 28. popular city of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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On January 20, the day after a visit by the mayor (UDI) Karine Franclet and president of the OPH to the premises of the social landlord, sibylline and threatening tags are inscribed with a red spray can on five guards' lodges.
Bullets from firearms are also deposited on site.
"
To all the guards you risk losing a leg
" (sic), warns one of these tags which seems to refer to "
jambisation
", a mutilation practiced in the middle of drug traffickers by injuring the opponent's legs with a weapon. fire.
“The objective was to intimidate her, to violate her”
The establishment lodged a complaint for death threats against persons exercising a public function and degradations.
Four days later, three guards were attacked around 10:00 a.m. in the parking lot of a residence, according to the city's account in a press release.
“
The agents concerned were cleaning this car park when two individuals wearing black hoods quickly approached and gassed our employees.
Intimidating remarks may have been made.
"You didn't get the message..."
she describes.
Then, Thursday evening, a fourth member of staff is violently taken to task.
The longtime employee was beaten and gassed on her way home with her eight-year-old granddaughter by people wearing balaclavas and latex gloves, the director general of the company told AFP. social landlord, Jean-Baptiste Paturet. "
Of course they didn't steal anything, the objective was to intimidate her, to
assault her ," he said, denouncing the "
extreme violence
" of this new attack.
These facts are part of a context of a change in the political majority in Aubervilliers, a city of 90,000 inhabitants that went to the right in the municipal elections of 2020, a first since the Second World War.
The political alternation gave rise to the arrival of a new team at the head of the OPH, which shows its desire to reform the social landlord in depth.
"
The transparent, honest and clean management of the OPH visibly hinders the" business "of some
", denounced Friday in a press release the mayor Karine Franclet.
All the agents of the HLM office have been placed under functional protection.
An investigation entrusted to the departmental security has been opened for aggravated violence, the Bobigny prosecution told AFP.
