A woman in her 70s and her granddaughter have been victims of an assault “of unusual violence” this Monday in Bordeaux, the prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Gironde regions indicated on Twitter, adding that a suspect has been arrested.
The events took place “late in the afternoon” in the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, at the home of the septuagenarian, who was accompanied by her “granddaughter”, a minor “under 15 years of age”, the prefect specified. .
The septuagenarian has been hospitalized but “her prognosis does not endanger her life,” says the same source. The video images taken by the police and the statements of a witness have made it possible to arrest a suspect very quickly and take him into police custody”, declared the prefect, who “condemns this intolerable act and hopes that everything will be clarified as soon as possible”. .
According to police sources, “the suspect is French, born in France (in Bordeaux) in 1993.” In a video posted Monday night on the Twitter account of former Bordeaux mayor Nicolas Florian, a man rushed through the door of a building in broad daylight, forcibly seizing the elderly woman and the minor. and threw them violently to the ground on the sidewalk, before leaving the place. “Horrible. Bordeaux today. This is what they have done to our country. French people wake up,” Eric Zemmour tweeted. “Another attack in #Bordeaux! Mr @GDarmanin, when are you going to open your eyes to the impoverishment that corrupts our society?” Edwige Diaz, deputy for Rassemblement National for Gironde, said on the same social network.