After the attack on Tuesday of an M6 journalist in a district of Nimes, two minors were indicted for "voluntary violence in assembly". They were also placed in pre-trial detention, the prosecutor's office announced on Thursday.
The two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, live in Pissevin, a neighborhood plagued by violence related to drug trafficking where the attack took place. "One of them has acknowledged his participation in the facts," said the prosecutor of the Republic of Nimes, Cécile Gensac, in a statement. A third man, an adult, who had also been taken into custody, was "cleared", she added.
Barely arrived Tuesday morning in Pissevin, a poor district of Nimes with many towers and blocks of buildings, the journalist reporter of images of M6, based in Montpellier, had been hit "standing and on the ground" by unknown people, according to a police source.
The municipal media library closed until further notice
The day before, the mayor of Nîmes, Jean-Paul Fournier, had taken the decision to close until further notice the municipal media library of Pissevin because of the aggravation of violence against members of his staff and the inhabitants of this district.
Jean-Paul Fournier had denounced the establishment of "barricades" and "checkpoints" by drug traffickers and the fact that the agents of the media library are subjected to "pat-downs in the street before accessing their workstations".