A deputy mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine victim of a knife aggression

A dozen people struck and threatened two elected Friday night at the exit of a handball game. The mayor deplores a “cycle of violence between young people from different neighborhoods”.

Le Monde with AFP

An investigation was opened Saturday, October 9 for attempted voluntary homicide on the person custodian of the public authority after the violent aggression the day before a deputy Mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne ), wounded with the knife, according to the prosecutor of Créteil.

around 10:30 pm Friday, two deputies to the mayor and one of their loved ones went out of a game from the local handball team, in the Delane gymnasium, in the city center, when they were “victims of ‘a violent aggression, “the Town Hall announced in a Communiqué .

One of them was taken over by a dozen hungry people, “who struck him behind the head”, bringing him down to the ground and then hit him with three knife stabs in the thigh , by launching threatening comments (“You kill people, we will kill you,” said the floor). The other two were slightly injured by trying to intervene. The group of a dozen people then fled.

Three hospitalized wounded

The two agreed elected officials were the youthful deputy aged by thirty years, as well as the seniors’ assistant, according to the Parisian . Supported by the relief, the three wounded were briefly hospitalized, “shocked”, added the City of the Mayor Cabinet (PCF) Philippe Bouyssou.

“According to the first testimonies collected, it seems that this event is part of the cycle of violence between young people from different neighborhoods that lasts too long months to Ivry”, written in his communiqué the municipality, who “condemns With anger this unacceptable violence “and calls” the authorities to take the measure of the seriousness of these facts, which divide Ivry and its population “. As the Parisian recalls, a shooting had made a death June 13 In a neighboring neighborhood, and other scarfs had occurred in August. A psychological cell was put in place in the afternoon at the town hall. The prosecutor of Créteil entrusted the investigation with the judicial police of Val-de Marne.

/Media reports.