A septuagenarian and her granddaughter were victims of an attack “of rare violence” in Bordeaux on Monday, the prefect of New Aquitaine and Gironde said on Twitter, adding that a suspect has been placed in custody.
The facts took place “in the late afternoon” during Martinique, at the home of the 73-year-old person accompanied by his “granddaughter”, a minor child “under 15 years old”, indicated the prefect.
A suspect very unfavorably known to the police
The septuagenarian was hospitalized but “her vital prognosis is not engaged”, specifies the same source. “The video exploitation by the police and the statements of a witness allowed a very rapid arrest and the detention of a suspect”, indicated the prefect, who “denounces this intolerable act and hope that all the light will be shed as soon as possible”.
From a police source, “the respondent is French, born in France [à Bordeaux] in 1993”. “He is very unfavorably known to the police, with around twenty mentions of his treatment of criminal records”.
“Unbearable images” reacts the former mayor of Bordeaux
In a video broadcast Monday evening on the Twitter account of the former mayor of Bordeaux Nicolas Florian and which AFP could not verify, a man rushes through the door of a building in broad daylight then pulls out of force an elderly woman and a child, throwing them violently to the ground on the sidewalk, before leaving the scene.
“Unbearable images of the aggression of a grandmother and her granddaughter (…) I send them all my support”, declared, in his publication, the former elected representative of Bordeaux, calling “for the greatest severity in the penal response.
Several far-right officials were also quick to react to the video. ” How awful. Bordeaux today. This is what they have done to our country. French, wake up,” tweeted Eric Zemmour.
“Another assault in #Bordeaux! Monsieur@GDarmanin, when are you going to open your eyes to the savagery that plagues our society? “, declared on the same social network the deputy Rassemblement national de Gironde Edwige Diaz.