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Assault of Mayor: Suspect Arrested

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Gilles Dussault, the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc en Isère, and his son were violently assaulted with a white weapon on Wednesday, August 6. After 40 hours of search, the suspect was arrested in the commune of Charantonnay, tens of kilometres from the place of the attack. The 60-year-old man is tonight in police custody. He is being prosecuted for attempted murder on a person who is the guardian of public authority. He faces life imprisonment (Po…

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Gilles Dussault, the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc en Isère, and his son were violently assaulted with a white weapon on Wednesday, August 6. After 40 hours of search, the suspect was arrested in the commune of Charantonnay, tens of kilometres from the place of the attack. The 60-year-old man is tonight in police custody. He is being prosecuted for attempted murder on a person who is the guardian of public authority. He faces life imprisonment (Po…

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The elected member of Villeneuve-de-Marc, a village of 1,200 inhabitants, was attacked on Wednesday evening by a quinquennial who had fled.

A man was arrested this Friday as part of the investigation into the violent assault of the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc, last Wednesday. Details.

Paris - The man suspected of having violently assaulted the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc, in Isère, on Wednesday was arrested Friday morning, announced the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, in a message about X. The suspect, fleeing since the aggression, was under a search warrant launched by the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office as part of an investigation for "attempt to murder a person who is the guardian of public authority". The ma…

The suspect wanted for the assault of the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc, in Isère, was arrested this Friday, August 8 in Charantonnay. Placed in police custody, he is targeted by an investigation for attempted murder on...

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced that the man suspected of having violently assaulted the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc in Isère on Wednesday night was arrested on Friday 8 August in the morning. Since the attack, the suspect was on the run and under a search warrant.

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