A man presented himself at the Reims police station this Friday at the end of the afternoon.
He was taken into police custody as part of the investigation after the assault on a photojournalist from the Union newspaper on Saturday, the prosecution said.
It is understood for "participation in an armed gathering with a view to committing violence or degradation" and "non-assistance to anyone in danger", specified in a press release the public prosecutor in Reims, Matthieu Bourrette.
On Wednesday, a 21-year-old young man of Algerian nationality, already sentenced eight times in 2018 and 2019, was indicted for “aggravated attempted murder” and placed in pre-trial detention.
He is suspected of being the one who "struck the blows" on the head, "first with the fists, then with the camera" of the journalist, in particular when he was on the ground, while the latter "exercised his job, and for this reason, ”in the sensitive area of the Red Cross, explained Matthieu Bourrette.
Coming to cover the apparent preparations for a brawl, the photographer was taken to task by a group of 13 individuals, while he was near his car flocked with the logo of the newspaper.
Christophe Lantenois, 65, remained on Friday in a "very worrying state, still in an artificial coma," said the editor of the regional daily, Geraldine Baehr-Pastor.
Darmanin in the newspaper premises
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, visited the premises of the daily in the afternoon, after a non-press visit to the sub-prefecture and the town hall, carrying a message of "support and determination for the investigation to be successful, ”she said.
With @ArnaudRobinet, I went to the premises of the Union newspaper in Reims, to meet the colleagues of Christian Lantenois, photo-journalist victim of a violent attack last Saturday.
I share their immense emotion.
This infamous act will not go unpunished.
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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) March 5, 2021
“There were two moments of discussion, very much appreciated with all the employees and then with the management” during which “the question of knowing how we can continue to work in safety conditions” was put to him, he said. she detailed.
"Our message is that we do not want to stop there, and he has urged us to raise proposals" with the government.
Invited on France 5 Friday evening in the program C à Vous, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti said his "revolt" "in the face of this unbearable violence" and his "sadness".
"For the rest, this case is an ongoing affair and if in the course of this man dysfunctions are proven, I will take the necessary measures", he added with reference to the suspect indicted.
"I will examine in the coming hours (...) the elements that will be communicated to me by my services.
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