French authorities arrested 12 people on Wednesday for attacking the home of the mayor of a town on the outskirts of Paris with a car in early July, during riots in the capital and other cities.
On the night of July 1-2, a burning vehicle entered the home of the mayor of Haÿ-les-Roses, Vincent Jeanbrun, injuring his wife, Mélanie Nowak, also a local mayor, who was fleeing with two young children.
The 12 people were taken into police custody “to carry out some investigations,” a source at the Créteil court told France-Presse, which remains “very secretive” about their actual involvement in the attack.
The arrests were made within the framework of the investigation for “attempted homicide” opened after the events and, later, extended to gang leaders for the commission of crimes of destruction of property by arson in an organized group.
This violent attack caused a strong commotion in France and the unanimous condemnation of the entire political class in the country.
It happened when the Paris region and several cities in the interior were the scene of several nights of riots, marked by looting and destruction of public buildings, after the death of a 17-year-old boy shot by a policeman during a roadblock.
Source: TSF
