A minor was indicted for the tear gas attack on Raquel Garrido (LFI) in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis) during the campaign between the two rounds of the legislative elections, indicated Friday, July 1 to AFP the parquet floor of Bobigny.
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Arrested on Tuesday evening by police officers from the Drancy police station as part of the investigation entrusted to an examining magistrate, the 15-year-old teenager was indicted on Thursday for the charge of violence with weapons without incapacity for work on the 48-year-old lawyer, elected three days later to the National Assembly, and on activists.
It is the subject of an educational measure.
"
Investigations remaining to be carried out
" on this attack, which occurred on June 16 in the context of a campaign under high tension and enamelled with incidents between Raquel Garrido and the outgoing UDI deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the Bobigny prosecution ordered the opening of a judicial investigation.
"Let all be judged"
A video posted on Twitter by Raquel Garrido showed a young person running to the car with sound system in which the candidate Nupes was in the company of activists to campaign in a district of Drancy, the stronghold of Jean-Christophe Lagarde.
The author emptied a tear gas canister into the passenger compartment and fled.
The boss of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who was the deputy for the 5th district of Seine-Saint-Denis for 20 years, denies any involvement in this attack.
"
I named an assistant to Aude Lagarde, mayor of Drancy (and wife of Jean-Christophe Lagarde, editor's note) as the author of the instructions given to the young man
," Raquel Garrido told AFP on Tuesday. who waits "
for all to be judged
".
An investigation is open
Last week, Raquel Garrido and her husband Alexis Corbière were also victims of false accusations in an article in Le Point which claimed that the couple exploited an undocumented employee.
Extremely rare, the weekly removed the article from its site and apologized to the two elected officials.
The management of Le Point also summoned the author of the article, Aziz Zemouri, to an interview prior to a possible dismissal.
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The Paris prosecutor's office on Wednesday opened an investigation for fraud after the wrongful questioning of the couple of parliamentarians.
The journalist filed a complaint on Tuesday for "
breach of trust
" against Jean-Christophe Lagarde and a policeman, whom Aziz Zemouri presents as the source of the false accusations against the two elected officials.
