Mouloud B., 57, will be tried on June 4 and has since been placed under judicial supervision. Oriane Filhol, sixth deputy mayor in charge of solidarity, was beaten up while leaving a work meeting.
In January, three young men from Saint-Denis aged 18 to 22 were arrested and convicted for this attack. At their trial, they explained that they had been promised 2,500 euros each by a mysterious sponsor to hit a person they did not know. “All of this appears completely vague and incomprehensible to us,” indicates PS Mayor Mathieu Hanotin.