Europe1 .fr with AFP 4:20 p.m., September 13, 2021
A Toulouse elected official was assaulted in a gay meeting place, on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
The man, who suffers from a facial trauma, was still hospitalized on Monday.
An elected official from Occitania was stripped and severely beaten overnight from Saturday to Sunday, in a gay meeting place in Toulouse.
"The wounds (fractures) testify to the aggression suffered", indicated Monday the public prosecutor of Toulouse Samuel Vuelta-Simon, adding that the victim, hospitalized, "could not be heard".
The attackers "stole the victim's vehicle and his clothes," said Samuel Vuelta-Simon.
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According to France Bleu Occitanie, the victim, a 67-year-old man who is
mayor of a town
in Aveyron, was stripped, tied to a tree and then beaten up.
A few minutes later, the man allegedly succeeded in alerting the police, who discovered him completely naked.
The perpetrators still wanted
A police source reports that the chosen one suffers from a significant facial trauma and was still hospitalized on Monday.
The investigation was entrusted to the departmental security "to locate and question the perpetrators of the attack who, therefore, have not yet been identified", added the prosecutor, stressing that the police had found the vehicle.
The homophobic nature of the attack was not confirmed by the prosecution.