A septuagenarian and her granddaughter were victims of a “violent attack” this Monday in Bordeaux, as the prefect of New Aquitaine and Gironde pointed out on Twitter. In addition, he noted that a suspect was detained.
The events took place “at late afternoon” in the capital of the New Aquitaine region, on Cours de la Martinique street, at the home of the 73-year-old woman, accompanied at that time by her granddaughter, a girl under the age of age, indicated the prefect.
The septuagenarian was hospitalized, but “prognosis is not serious”, specifies the same source.
“The investigation of the video by the police and the statements of a witness allowed a very quick arrest and detention of a suspect,” said the prefect, who “denounces this intolerable act and hopes that everything will be clarified as soon as possible.”
From a police source, “the defendant is French, born in France (in Bordeaux) in 1993.” “He is very unfavorably known by the police, with about twenty mentions about his treatment of criminal records.”
In a video posted Monday night on the Twitter account of former Bordeaux mayor Nicolas Florian, a man bursts through the door of a building in broad daylight and then forces his way out of an elderly woman and a child, violently throwing them to the ground. on the sidewalk, before leaving the scene.
“Unbearable images of the aggression of a grandmother and her granddaughter (…) I send them all my support,” the former deputy-elect of Bordeaux declared in his publication, calling for “the greatest severity in the criminal response.”
Several far-right officials were also quick to react to the video. “Horrible. Bordeaux today. This is what they have done to our country. French, wake up,” Eric Zemmour tweeted.
“Another attack in Bordeaux! Mr. Darmanin, when are you going to open your eyes to the savagery that plagues our society?” Deputy Rassemblement national de Gironde, Edwige Diaz, declared on the same social network.
