William Molinié 4:55 p.m., September 16, 2022
According to information collected by Europe 1, a deputy mayor of the town of Choisy-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne found himself in police custody after refusing a police check and embarrassing the officials who intervened in a city.
"He even harangued the young rioters, telling them to film the scene," said a source familiar with the matter.
The deputy mayor copiously obstructed the work of the police.
Commissioner Matthieu Valet – also spokesperson for the independent union of police commissioners, SICP – did not go overboard.
According to information from Europe 1, Moustapha Thiam, a deputy mayor in charge of housing in the city of Choisy-le-Roi, was arrested and placed in police custody in a cell at the city police station on Thursday night. to Friday for contempt, while the police intervened for riots in the difficult city Jacques-Cartier.
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It all starts when a vehicle of the departmental BAC is taken to task, shortly after midnight, by young people in this district.
The police then resorted to their tear gas canisters to be able to get out of this difficult situation.
The burst of one of them ends up in the car of a local youth, which ignites very quickly and spreads the fire to nine other parked cars.
Offensive remarks and refusal of control
The firefighters intervened to control the fire and explained to the police that they feared the presence of nitrous oxide cylinders in the vehicle or at least fuel accelerators.
The owner, in default of insurance, then presents himself to the police.
Just like an assistant to the mayor of the city who, it seems, lives in the district and will quickly worsen the situation, already degraded, according to the version of the police.
The latter would then have made outrageous remarks and attacked the dignity of the police commissioner dispatched to the scene to try to restore calm in the neighborhood.
"He even harangued the young rioters, telling them to film the scene," said a source familiar with the matter.
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Another police source confirms that this individual "refused the control and made outrageous remarks vis-à-vis the police authorities".
The chosen one ended up in handcuffs, taken straight to the police station, where he spent the night in a police cell.
Contacted by Europe 1, the Créteil public prosecutor's office was unable to inform us of the legal follow-up to this case.
Contacted, the town hall of Choisy-le-Roi did not respond.