Four individuals had been arrested after coming to disrupt, on the night of Friday March 6, a marketing campaign assembly of Patrick Proisy, outgoing mayor (La France insoumise, LFI) of Fache-Thumesnil (North) and candidate for re-election, Agence France-Presse (AFP) realized on Saturday from a police supply.
Around ten hooded individuals entered the assembly room in Fache-Thumesnil firstly of the night, which introduced collectively round 100 individuals, in accordance with this supply.
Equipped with indicators bearing messages corresponding to “Justice for Quentin”in reference to far-right activist Quentin Deranque, killed in February in Lyon, the disruptors positioned themselves in entrance of the stage earlier than throwing varied projectiles, together with faux blood, flour and cans, in accordance with the identical supply.
No one was injured. The police intervened and arrested 4 people, and the electoral rally was in a position to resume. The Lille public prosecutor’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to requests from AFP.
“A new stage of the fascist shift”
Patrick Proisy, who claims to have been thrown with flour, mentioned he needed to file a criticism. “The municipality is really the basic field of democracy”he recalled, emphasizing the necessity to “don’t let yourself be attacked in the cities”.
On his X account, the chief of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accused “15 hooded neo-Nazis from Paris and the North” for inflicting the difficulty, and greeted “the comrades of the “rebellious” safety service who protected the members and managed the bullies with out violence”.
The deputy (North, LFI) Aurélien Le Coq, who was current on the assembly, additionally denounced on “a new stage of the fascist shift”.
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