Arrested this Wednesday morning in Nice after the stoning of the local permanence of Éric Ciotti, a man, still in police custody at the beginning of the evening, will be “referred” Thursday, announced to 20 minutes Nice public prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme. This individual, suspected of having thrown cobblestones on the front of the premises of the president of the Les Républicains party, the day before the vote on the motions of censure against the pension reform, will be presented to the prosecution, which will decide on the follow-up to be given to his arrest. .
On March 19, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes had found the glass of his HQ installed at the port of Nice broken. “The motion or the pavement” warned a tag accompanying this act of vandalism. “I will never give in to the new disciples of Terror,” reacted Eric Ciotti, in favor of reform and who had called on the elected officials of his party to oppose the censorship of the text carried by the government. Nineteen LR deputies, out of 61, however approved that carried by the Liot group, finally rejected with nine votes.
The day after this vote, on March 21, it was another parliamentarian from the Alpes-Maritimes, Éric Pauget, who had also regained his stoned permanence. The LR deputy from Antibes did not support the motion. “Strongly condemning this violence and the pressure on elected officials”, he also announced the filing of a complaint.