This Monday, February 21, around 10:30 a.m., a hooded man entered the office of the mayor of Roissy-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne), François Bouchart (DVD), then in the middle of a meeting with collaborators.

According to 

Le Parisien

, this 44-year-old individual took a Koran out of his backpack before asking the city councilor: “Do you have a problem with Islam?

I know where you live”.

He “broadcast Koranic songs from his smartphone and took on a threatening tone when I told him that he had nothing to do there without authorization”, explains the elected official on his Facebook account.

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Gérald Darmanin called the mayor

Quickly alerted, the municipal police arrested this 40-year-old known for a background "linked to radicalization" and a "religious obsession".

The condition of the suspect proving incompatible with police custody, he was interned in a psychiatric hospital.

François Bouchart lodged a complaint with the Pontault-Combault police station.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly called him at the end of the morning to express his support.

The elected officials of the Paris-Vallée-de-la-Marne urban community unanimously denounced this "intolerable act" in a common message.

They call on the public authorities to do everything possible to “avoid the trivialization of criminal acts against the leading representatives of democracy”.

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