The images are shocking. We see a elderly woman and her 7-year-old granddaughter, on the doorstep, between their house and the street, then a man approaches. Both have the reflex to go inside but the man pulls them suddenly by the arm to throw them out, their heads hit the ground, he separates them throwing the little girl even further. He would have tried to kidnap the girl but would have been frightened by the barking of the dog at home according to the prosecution, which cites testimonies from local residents. The attacker then picks up something and runs away.
Under guardianship and out of psychiatric treatment
According to a statement from the prosecution on Tuesday morning, the man is 30 years old, he was arrested at 6.30 p.m. on Monday evening and placed in police custody. “counts of home invasion, attempted kidnapping and forcible confinement, violence against a vulnerable person and a minor under the age of 15.” For the moment he denies the facts, he is under guardianship and out of psychiatric treatment. He already has 15 entries in his criminal record for road disputes and drug-related offences.
The grandmother was transported to the hospital, her condition does not inspire concern. The prefect denounces this “intolerable act”.
The prefect is not the only one to react, since 9:30 p.m. this Monday evening, the video has already been around the world. On Twitter, we can read hundreds, even thousands, of comments, from France, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands… Often racist remarks, denouncing immigration… And this while the suspect, according to the AFP, was born in Bordeaux.
Politically, the whole right reacts, from the leader of Reconquest! Eric Zemmour, who writes “This is what they have done to our country. French people, wake up”. The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella says he does not want “of a France where you can be attacked, for nothing, on your doorstep”. While the RN deputy for Gironde Edwige Diaz denounces “the savagery that plagues our society”. The ex-mayor (LR) of Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian chose to share these “unbearable images”.
Enough to revive the debate on security among the municipal councilors of Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian, on the right, or Fabien Robert, for the Modem. They criticize the city’s inaction on security, a debate that had already taken another step last week after the fatal stab wound to the Capuchins
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The victims will be examined today by a doctor to carry out a complete expertise And “determine the psychological consequences of this act of particular violence” writes the public prosecutor Frédérique Porterie.