"An investigation is underway," the Niort prosecutor's office told an AFP correspondent on Wednesday, adding that the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) had "not filed a complaint".
The Alliance union, which denounces "a new slippage of an elected representative of the Republic", indicated in a press release on Wednesday that a complaint had been filed by the DDSP of Deux-Sèvres.
According to the weekly Le Point, Mr. Taché was attacked in a bar in Niort – his hometown – on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, then allegedly insulted the agents of the Anti-Crime Brigade called to intervene.
“You are shitty baggers,” the deputy would have said in particular, according to police officers quoted by Le Point.
The SGP police unit union in Niort will "at least ask for a public apology if the facts are proven", declared its representative Pascal Valès to an AFP correspondent.
Contacted by AFP, the deputy did not want to speak.
According to his lawyer, Me Jade Dousselin, Mr. Taché "was the victim of an assault", receiving "many blows, particularly to the head and face", which earned him two days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT) .
"These words, the violence of which he can only regret, were spoken (...) when he was in a state of amazement linked to the physical and psychological shock he had just suffered", he said. she explained to AFP.
Elected MP for Val-d'Oise in June 2017 under the label La République en Marche, Aurélien Taché resigned from Emmanuel Macron's party three years later, before founding the "New Democrats" party with other former walkers.
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