A huge shock. The home of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) was attacked by a car-ram in the night from Saturday to Sunday, and his wife and one of his two young children were injured, a announced the chosen one.
An investigation has been opened for attempted murder, the Créteil prosecutor’s office told AFP, confirming information from BFMTV. The judicial police are seized. The mayor of this district capital, Vincent Jeanbrun (LR), denounced in a press release published on Twitter “an assassination attempt of unspeakable cowardice”.
His wife and one of his children injured
Around 1:30 a.m., while he was at City Hall “as for three nights” to deal with urban violence, rioters “launched a ram car at (his) home before setting it on fire to burn down (his) house,” he said in a statement posted on Twitter.
His wife and “two young children” were sleeping there, he said. It was while trying to “protect” the family and “escape the assailants” that the wife and one of the children were injured, according to the mayor. “Both children are very, very shocked,” it was added. “All of this was skillfully orchestrated, without consideration for the lives inside the house,” according to the mayor’s entourage.