Monday evening, the mayor of Miribel-Les-Echelles, in Isère, was assaulted while trying to reason with young people who were shooting fireworks in the village square, we learned from concordant sources.
Williams Dufour, 51, presented "wounds to the face, to one hand and a burn to the other hand," firefighters told AFP, who transferred the "slightly injured" to hospital. The councilor received seven days of ITT.
The elected official was in a meeting with two municipal councilors when he heard the noises of scooters and then fireworks in the village square, we learned from the public prosecutor, Eric Vaillant.
Threatened and burnt with fireworks
The mayor, announcing his function, then asked the teenagers to “stop their nuisance”. The young people did not comply: one of them threatened William Dufour with fireworks. The mayor tried to control him but was burned, then hit in the face by another young person, according to information from the Grenoble prosecutor's office.
According to the same source, it is a group of six young people, who came with three scooters and who do not live in the small town of some 1,700 inhabitants, located in the Chartreuse regional natural park.
An investigation was opened, led by the Meylan research brigade and the gendarmes of the Saint Laurent du Pont brigade.
“What struck me is that these young people hated me, even though we don't know each other! ", Entrusted the mayor to the regional daily newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré . But the city councilor, who is exercising his first mandate, assured not "to feel discouraged by this incident".
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