Europe 1 with AFP 5:04 p.m., February 04, 2023
This Saturday, during a demonstration in Sedan to defend the motherhood of the city, the deputy Jean-Luc Warsmann (UDI) was floured.
The author of the gesture was "placed in custody of the head of violence without incapacity on a person responsible for a public service mission during a public demonstration".
The deputy (UDI) Jean-luc Warsmann was floured on Saturday during a demonstration in Sedan (Ardennes) to defend the maternity ward of the city and the author of the gesture placed in police custody, we learned from a source. policewoman.
During this demonstration, according to the images broadcast by France 3 Champagne-Ardenne, a man approached the deputy and poured a bag of flour over his head, before shouting in particular "he deserves it, that's 40 years that he is an impostor" and "the death of public services, it is him, he deceives the people".
The Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of the Ardennes told AFP that this man had been arrested.
He was "placed in police custody on the charge of violence without incapacity on a person responsible for a public service mission during a public demonstration", confirmed the public prosecutor of Charleville-Mézières, Magali Josse.
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Nearly 450 people present at the event
Deputy of the third constituency of the Ardennes, which includes Sedan, Jean-Luc Warsmann has sat in the National Assembly since 1995. "No cause, no claim can justify the aggression of an elected representative of the Republic. Let us be careful never to trivialize gestures that damage our representative democracy", reacted the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher on Twitter.
According to the DDSP, the event brought together between 400 and 450 people.
The demonstrators, some of whom marched symbolically with empty strollers, intended to defend the maternity hospital in Sedan, threatened with closure.