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The deputy of Perpignan Romain Grau was “violently” attacked by demonstrators in Perpignan on Saturday.
Romain Grau announced his intention to file a complaint this Sunday.
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LREM deputy Romain Grau, as well as a parliamentary adviser to the Minister of Justice and one of the parliamentarian’s neighbors, were “violently” attacked on Saturday in Perpignan by demonstrators against the health pass who “attacked” his office.
“I was working with Guillem Gervilla, parliamentary adviser to Eric Dupond-Moretti, when all of a sudden we heard a horde of people heading towards the office and then banging on the windows,” Romain Grau told AFP. estimating their number at more than 250. “We went out to talk to them and there we were attacked very violently. They clearly wanted to crack us up with some pretty heavy insults,” he added. “One of my neighbors intervened and got slapped. I received a punch on the chin”, specified the deputy.
On a video posted on Twitter by Guillem Gervilla, we see a man screaming “to death” and another shouting “did you vote for the pass?”.
“We finally managed to sneak upstairs and they dispersed after breaking a window,” said Romain Grau. He informed AFP of his desire to file a complaint on Sunday. The prefect of Pyrénées-Orientales Étienne Stoskopf condemned on Twitter “these unacceptable acts in democracy”, ensuring that “everything will be done to identify their perpetrators”.
“Once again, once too often, an elected representative of the Nation has been attacked on the sidelines of a demonstration. (…). These behaviors are unacceptable and call for unity”, tweeted the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. “No physical aggression against elected officials of the Republic can be tolerated”, wrote on the same social network the Minister of Overseas Sébastien Lecornu.
The Ministry of the Interior counted nearly 38,000 demonstrators across France on Saturday against the vaccine pass, two days before it came into force. On Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “aggravated voluntary violence” after the January 15 attack on a team of AFP journalists covering an anti-pass rally.
(AFP)