The two minors are aged 15 and 17 and the two adults aged 18 and 21, simply specified the public prosecutor Loïs Raschel, in a short press release.
He had lost consciousness
At the end of the afternoon late Saturday, this city councilor addressed “several individuals carrying out an urban rodeo”, asking them to “stop this activity”, wrote the magistrate on Sunday evening in a previous press release.
The elected official had come to meet a “fifteen bikers”, on the ball-trap field of the town, after having almost been overturned by a motorcycle, a little before 6 pm in a village street, according to his words in the regional daily South West.
The tone had then rose and the elected official had then been “violently struck by one of them with a metallic object”, according to his testimony, reported by the prosecution, which specifies that he was then “driven for many strokes”, once on the ground, before losing consciousness.
The victim, who was then admitted to the emergency room, suffers from arcade, nose and right cheekbones. In March 2024, Parliament adopted a law aimed at better protecting local representatives from violence. One of the flagship measures of the text is the alignment of sanctions with those provided for violence against the possession of public authority, such as the police.
