Illustration of exchange of wedding vows.

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Frank Winkler

Two versions which oppose and on which justice will have to pronounce.

This Friday, a father and his two sons must be tried in immediate appearance before the Criminal Court of Lyon for "contempt of person holding public authority, threats to commit a crime or misdemeanor against property", we learn from the police.

Facts which would have been committed last Saturday in Bron, during a marriage enamelled with tensions.

On September 19, the wedding guests arrived half an hour late for the celebration after rodeos in the streets of the town.

Faced with this arrival with fanfare, the elected representative to celebrate the union had decided to accept in the town hall only the future married, their parents and their witnesses and to leave the rest of the procession at the door of the town hall.

This decision had provoked the anger of some guests who would then have jostled three police officers, called to the rescue, to try to force their way into the town hall, adds the security of the Rhône.

Everyone stands on their version of the facts

One of the accused, brother of the future husband, would then have wanted to tear off the tear gas canister of a police officer while the father of the family, municipal agent at the town hall of Bron for 20 years, threatened to blow up the markets, ”police said.

One of his other sons, third implicated in this affair, would then have insulted the police officers and the elected official, even though the scene was filmed by the video surveillance cameras of the town hall.

A version of the facts disputed by wedding guests who assured our colleagues from

Progress

that the use of tear gas by the police had generated tensions within the procession.

After the wedding, finally celebrated in a select committee, several vehicles had been set on fire overnight from Saturday to Sunday in the town, without any link being officially established between the two cases.

After the complaint filed by the municipality and the police, the two brothers involved in the violence were arrested Thursday morning.

The father went to the police station on his own during the day.

The three men, placed in police custody, denied the facts with which they are accused.

Like the plaintiffs, they have maintained their versions as they should again do this Friday when they appear in court.

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