The scene is already spinning on social networks, and particularly abroad. During Thursday’s demonstration against the pension reform, LFI deputy Antoine Léaument, elected from the 10th district of Essonne, received several baton blows from CRS, following a charge in Place de la Bastille. On the videos, we can see several lines of CRS, shields raised, in direct contact with the crowd. Antoine Léaument, identifiable thanks to his tricolor scarf, then had his back to the police when he received two baton blows.
In the crowd movement that follows, he is dealt a third blow as he tries to protect his skull. “It’s okay, don’t worry, I was at the Assembly tonight to fight,” reassured the elected official in the evening on Twitter. “That an opposition deputy in a sling takes this kind of blows says a lot about the rule of law in France”, he nevertheless underlines.
The deputy specifies that at the time of the charge “the demonstrators were completely non-violent” and that he had come “to tell a violent CRS to calm down and stop typing blindly (failed)”. In response to David Le Bars, secretary general of the union of national police commissioners, who criticized his presence in Place de la Bastille after the end of the demonstration, Antoine Léaument reacted by asking “how to control law enforcement operations if I am not here ? »