Jack Lang "pushed to the ground" at a rally against child criminality

The former Minister of Culture was taken on his way to the Opera Garnier in Paris, in the 9th arrondissement. He filed a complaint.

The president of the 85-year-old Arab World Institute, who was briefly hospitalized on Saturday 8 February at night in Paris, said that he had been surrounded by several people who shouted "pedophile", "rapist of children" at the exit of the metro.

The former Minister of Culture and President of the Institute of the Arab World was caught up by a group of people participating in a gathering of the International Collective for the Abolition of Child Criminality. A complaint was filed.

The former minister was caught by several people. "They surrounded me, some shouted 'pedophile', 'child rapist'. Then a man pushed me to the ground," he told the AFP on Sunday.

An investigation was opened for "volunteer violence in a meeting" after the former Minister of Culture and President of the Arab World Institute Jack Lang was pushed to the ground on the margins of a rally in Paris for the abolition of child crime, was learned on Sunday at the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office. ...

Jack Lang filed a complaint after being held near a rally against child criminality, Opéra Square, in Paris.