LREM deputy Romain Grau, attacked on Saturday in Perpignan with two other people by demonstrators against the health pass, announced this Sunday that he had filed a complaint after “this intolerable violence”. The day before, while he was working on his duty with Guillem Gervilla, a parliamentary adviser to Eric Dupond-Moretti, “a horde of people” walked towards them, tapping on the windows overlooking the street.
The two men then went out to try to calm them down, but were “violently” attacked, according to Romain Grau, reporting “fairly heavy insults” and a “punch on the chin”. “One of my neighbors intervened and got slapped,” explained the deputy. They were about 250 demonstrators, according to him. On a video posted on Twitter by Guilhem Gervilla, we see a man screaming “to death” and another shouting “ho! did you vote it the pass? “. Another video circulating on social networks shows dozens of people, some wearing yellow vests, repeating “collaborators” in the direction of Romain Grau and Guilhem Gervilla.
“We finally managed to sneak upstairs,” said Romain Grau. The Keeper of the Seals “firmly” condemned the attack: “This violence is also the result of hate speech held by certain irresponsible politicians”, he tweeted. “Everything will be done to identify their perpetrators,” assured the prefect of Pyrénées-Orientale Etienne Stoskopf on Twitter. In July 2019, Romain Grau’s office in Perpignan was targeted by “yellow vests” who broke windows and tried to set fire to the premises where the deputy was.