“You are shitholes!
“This is what, according to police officers quoted by Le Point, the deputy of Val-d’Oise Aurélien Taché (ex-LREM) allegedly launched at bac officials who intervened to put an end to a fight in which he was involved on Tuesday evening in Niort (Deux-Sèvres).
"An investigation is underway," the Niort prosecutor's office told an AFP correspondent on Wednesday, without giving further details.
According to the weekly, Aurélien Taché was attacked in a bar in Niort – his hometown – on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, around half past midnight according to France Bleu, then allegedly insulted the agents of the Anti-Crime Brigade called to intervene.
For its part, the Alliance union, which denounces "a new slippage of an elected representative of the Republic", indicated in a press release that a complaint had been filed by the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of Deux-Sèvres .
Contacted, the DDSP referred to the prosecution.
“If the facts brought to our attention are materialized, the defendant will have to answer for his actions before the courts.
If an elected official insults and threatens the police, it is the Republic that wavers,” said the Alliance National Police union, according to France Bleu, which “reserves the right to bring civil action in this case”.
The SGP police unit union in Niort will for its part "ask at least a public apology if the facts are proven", indicated its representative Pascal Valès to an AFP correspondent.
The deputy did not want to speak but according to his lawyer, Jade Dousselin, Aurélien Taché "was the victim of an attack", receiving "many blows, in particular to the head and face", which earned him two days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT).
"These words, the violence of which he can only regret, were spoken (...) when he was in a state of amazement linked to the physical and psychological shock he had just suffered", she explained. .
Elected MP for Val-d'Oise in June 2017 under the label La République en Marche, Aurélien Taché resigned from Emmanuel Macron's party three years later, before founding the "New Democrats" party with other former walkers.
