A figure from the ultra-right Lyonnaise was placed in police custody, overnight from Thursday to Friday, for acts of violence with a weapon in Lyon, we learned on Saturday from a judicial source.
This was denounced by the candidate Nupes of the Raphaël Arnault constituency.
The alleged perpetrator is a former member of Génération identitaire, an association dissolved in March 2021, which notably made headlines in the spring of 2018 by leading anti-migrant patrols in the Alps.
He is in police custody for "violence with a weapon to the detriment of two victims" and "violence on a person holding public authority", indicates the Lyon prosecutor's office, in confirmation of information from the newspaper
Liberation
.
“The investigation is continuing to determine the reasons and the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts”, continues the prosecution, which does not give more information at this stage on the victims.
Raphaël Arnault publishes a photo of an alleged victim assaulted on the neck
According to
Liberation
, the facts would have taken place in the district of the slopes of the Croix-Rousse (Lyon 1st), "shortly after a collage organized there by the candidate Nupes" in the legislative elections in this constituency, Raphaël Arnault, former door -word of the "antifa" collective Young Guard of Lyon.
The member of the ultra-right would then have been recognized and arrested "by young men", and would have stabbed two of them, according to the daily, one in the throat, the other in the arm.
One of the young people filed a complaint, he was stabbed in the neck, luckily he managed to narrowly dodge otherwise he would certainly no longer be in our world.
Another youth was stabbed in the arm, we're waiting for news.
pic.twitter.com/bXU7gVdCr9
— Raphaël Arnault (@ArnaultRaphael) June 10, 2022
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On his Twitter account, Raphaël Arnault denounced a "racist knife attack by one of the identity leaders", publishing a photo of one of the two alleged victims, injured in the neck.
“No element” of the investigation “allows to affirm that the victims can be militants working in support of a candidate for deputy”, however specified Saturday the parquet floor.
The latter requested the provisional detention of the suspect, who should be tried in immediate appearance on Monday.
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