The usual wandering of Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse degenerated Wednesday evening during the Fête de la Musique. On the side of the district of Saint-Aubin, the city councilor and the three elected officials who accompanied him crossed the demonstration of support for the Uprisings of the Earth, a movement just dissolved by the Minister of the Interior.
In a tweet, posted in stride, Jean-Luc Moudenc himself recounts having been the target of “jets of projectiles” – trash cans and glass bottles according to those around him – and insults by “members of the ultra-left.
A chosen one taken to the hospital
Jonnhy Dunal, the elected official at the Festivities, present on the spot, claims to have seen “the hatred in their eyes” and thanks the police for having intervened “while the situation was getting worse”. If the mayor was not injured in the “physical confrontation”, Nina Ochoamunicipal councilor in charge of student life, was taken to the hospital for a “dislocated shoulder”, indicates the Capitol.
Toulouse elected officials reserve the right to file a complaint after this violent episode. Jean-Luc Moudenc received Wednesday evening the support, among others, of Gérald Darmanin, and many elected officials, including from the left, such as the socialist president of the departmental council of Haute-Garonne Sebastian Vincini or the LFI deputy from Toulouse Francois Piquemal.