The home of Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne), was attacked with a ram car, on the night of Saturday July 1 to Sunday July 2. While the elected Les Républicains (LR) was at City Hall, “as for three nights” to deal with urban violence, around 1:30 a.m., “individuals threw a ram car at [his ] home before setting it on fire to burn down [his] house, in which [his] wife and [his] two young children slept,” he said in a statement posted on Twitter. “Trying to protect them and evade the attackers, my wife and one of my children were injured,” he said.
Vincent Jeanbrun denounced an “assassination attempt of unspeakable cowardice”. An investigation into attempted murder has been opened, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from the Créteil prosecutor’s office, and the judicial police are seized of the investigation.
On Friday, the elected official had the town hall protected by large barriers bristling with barbed wire after an attack suffered the previous night.
On Twitter, the prefect of Val-de-Marne, Sophie Thibault, “strongly condemned the attack on the mayor’s home”.
LR party president Eric Ciotti on Sunday expressed his “support” for the mayor, who is also a spokesman for the right-wing party. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes denounced on Twitter “facts of extreme gravity which must lead their authors to the Assize Court”. On the left, the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse (Socialist Party, PS), deplored on the same social network “unspeakable acts”: “This spiral of violence against those who embody authority – elected officials, teachers, caregivers, firefighters , police, transport agent, journalists – obliges us collectively, at the risk of disintegration. »
