Aggression of a deputy in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: three people arrested and indicted

One of the two men challenged has been identified as the one who had torn off the member’s mask. The other man and the woman have been asady of the goemon jets.

Le Monde with AFP

Two men and a woman suspected of having assaulted the member of the Republic on January 9, the LRM (LRM) Stéphane Claneaux in front of his home in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, during a manifestation against the sanitary pass, have were arrested on Thursday and indicted the next day, announced on Saturday, January 22 the National Gendarmerie.

Acting in a clogging investigation, at the request of the Prosecutor of the Republic of St. Pierre-et-Miquelon, the investigators of the Saint-Pierre Research Brigade proceeded to the operation of ‘a dozen videos broadcast on social networks as well as the hearing of thirty identified witnesses, “the gendarmerie explained in a statement.

On January 9, the member was waiting for the protesters in front of his home “to chat with them”, as he had told about FranceInfo, when several people launched him of goemon and various projectiles. “It looked like a stoning,” said the elected, assuring “at five centimeters near a roller spent near” of his figure. The Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, had denounced “an unacceptable aggression”, and the member had filed a complaint.

Elected officials directly targeted

Since July, 534 facts of “serious threats” against elected officials directly related to the management of sanitary measures against CVIV-19 have been identified, and more than 400 complaints, filed, according to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.

One of the two men challenged has been identified as the one who had torn off the member’s mask. The other man and the woman have been as olders of the jets of Goémon. All three were notified Friday a stress with judicial review (prohibition of contact with the member, prohibition to participate in a demonstration).

The gendarmes pursue their investigations to identify other authors.

/Media reports.