Three minors were indicted on Friday for "aggravated violence" against the mayor of the rural town of Miribel-Les-Echelles, in Isère, the Grenoble prosecutor's office said. One of them, aged 17 and known to the police and justice services, was remanded in custody, said deputy prosecutor Boris Duffau.
The mayor was punched in the face
Another was placed under judicial supervision and the third was the subject of a reparation measure (the young person is asked to think about the scope of his act, note), pending their referral to the juvenile court, he added. Two other young people, "not directly involved in the assault", were released.
These five young people - including four minors - had been placed in police custody on Wednesday after the attack on the mayor of Miribel-Les-Echelles, a town of some 1,700 inhabitants located in the Chartreuse regional natural park. Monday, July 27, Williams Dufour, a 51-year-old city councilor, was in a meeting with two city councilors when he heard the noises of scooters and then fireworks in the village square.
Seven days of ITT
The mayor, announcing his function, had asked the teenagers in vain to "stop their actions". He was then taken to task then hit in the face and lightly burned in one hand, being prescribed seven days of ITT (total incapacity for work). Two of his advisers were also injured.
The aggression had made the government react, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin estimating on Twitter that "to attack a mayor is to attack the Republic".