“You guys are crap bastards! “This is what would have launched, according to police quoted by point, the deputy of the Val-d’Oise Aurélien Taché (ex-LREM) to officials of the bac intervened to end a fight in which he was involved 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 assaulted in a bar in Niort – his hometown – on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, around half past midnight. France Blue, then allegedly then insulted the Anti-Crime Squad officers called in to intervene.
For its part, the Alliance union, which denounces “a new slip of an elected official of the Republic,” said in a statement that a complaint had been filed by the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of Deux-Sèvres. When contacted, the DDSP referred the matter to the Public Prosecutor’s office.
“If the facts brought to our attention are materialized, the defendant will have to answer for his actions in court. If an elected official insults and threatens the police, it is the Republic that falters, ” said the Alliance police nationale union, according to France Bleu, which “reserves the right to become a civil party in this case”. The SGP police union in Niort will for its part “ask at least for a public apology if the facts are proven,” its representative Pascal Valès told an AFP correspondent.
The deputy did not want to speak but according to his lawyer, Jade Dousselin, Aurélien Taché “was the victim of an assault”, receiving “numerous blows including to the head and face”, which earned him two days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT). “These words, whose violence he can only regret, were uttered (…) while he was in a state of shock related to the physical and psychological shock he had just suffered,” she explained.
Elected deputy of the 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 ex-marchers.