According to The Parisian, he explained that he wanted, by his gesture, to challenge the Head of State on the disagreement of the population with his policy. A 23-year-old young man was indicted and then imprisoned on Friday in Paris, accused of having fired a smoke bomb on Emmanuel Macron’s helicopter on April 27, we learned from the prosecution.
The Paris military prosecutor’s office had opened a preliminary investigation the day after the facts for “endangering the lives of others” and “attempt to destroy or damage property likely to harm the fundamental interests of the Nation”.
The young man was imprisoned, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution. Contacted, his lawyer, Me Pierre-Henri Baert, declined to comment. However, he indicated that he was appealing his client’s pre-trial detention.
The protest against pensions in the background
On April 27, Emmanuel Macron went to the Doubs to pay tribute to the freed slave who became a general, Toussaint Louverture, at the Château de Joux.
This trip was the fourth visit to the field by the President of the Republic since the adoption of the pension reform, which aroused massive protest, to the sound of pans in particular.