Anthony Rolland, a Gauriaguet city councilor in Gironde, was violently attacked on Saturday May 2 by young people while he was trying to put an end to a motorcycle rodeo. Still in shock, he testifies.
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Three days after the assault, Anthony Rolland is gradually recovering. This elected official to the municipal council of Gauriaguet, in Gironde, has just been the victim of a very violent attack, for which he was hospitalized and was awarded a total incapacity for work (ITT) of ten days.
The facts date back to May 3. That evening, the elected official intervenes to put an end to a wild rodeo in his town. Behind his sunglasses, the elected official testifies. “ICross one, around 5.30 p.m., on the rear wheel. He failed to get me in it, clearly “.
Knowing the usual actions of these rodeo followers, the elected official went directly to the ball-trap website. “I knew they came there. I came to explain, as I used to do, that they had to calm down “indicates the elected official.
One of the young people present then decides to leave, before returning, more threatening. “”He threw his motorcycle against the fence, he did not come to apologize but to do battle“Remember Anthony Rolland, his throat tight to the memory of this improbable attack.
He came to fight clearly. I received a big stroke of something, I don’t know what … it touched me from behind and in the face.
Anthony RollandEUD to Gauriazuet
The violence does not stop there. “I knee on the ground and there, they salad me. They hit me. I kicked, punches. I think that at one point I lost consciousness.” The attackers were about fifteen, according to him.
The rest, Anthony Rolland is just remembered. “I got back to my truck and went home”. Along the way, he meets a young people from the village who calls his mother, also a municipal councilor and liberal nursing, who gives him first aid. Even today, he still does not know if he will have to undergo an operation on the face. The aggressive elected official filed a complaint the same day.
An investigation was entrusted to the BTA in Saint-André-de-Cubzac and to the Blaye research brigade. She “is followed with the greatest attention by the prosecution “, Indicates the Libourne prosecutor. Admitted to the emergency department, “Several fractures were diagnosed: fracture of the arcade, fracture of the floor of the right orbit and fracture of the walls of the right maxillary sinus”, specifies the prosecutor of Libourne Loïs Raschel.
-Significant resources have been deployed to quickly identify the perpetrators of the facts.
Loïs RaschelLibourne prosecutor
For his part, the mayor of Gauriaguet does not take off. Alain Montangon will officially seize the association of mayors of Gironde so that it is civilized in the file “As she generally does when an elected official is attacked“.
These facts, to hear the mayor, occur from time to time. “”Usually, it’s going well, they are young people from the town we know. There they were young people from the outside. They immediately attacked, a wild horde!“
According to the story that the elected official has been attacked, on the fifteen young people present, they would be “especially four or five“To attack him and beaten him.”To behave like savages like that, we are not in a normal state“Remets the mayor referring to the drugs and alcohol potentially consumed by the attackers.
The mayor does not hide his concern. “It’s been a long time since I am mayor, I have never felt threatened. But there, these overflows …”, he blows.
According to the elected official, this ball-trap site is not, strictly speaking, badly famed. This space is often used for festive events, young people also go there without this posing a problem. “It often happens that people come to this place with motorcycles. It is a nice place, where there are a few meals. And the young people join it. So, we close our eyes.”
Except that, for some time, the place has become a site to “Drug trafficking” According to the mayor of Gauriaguet.
I have at least seven or eight deal points in the town!
Alain MontangonMayor of Gauriaguet
Alain Montangon has been mayor of the town since 1977. He remains motivated in his role as mayor with his 1,500 citizens, but also noted the drift of the lack of education and violence. “”What scares me is what’s going on behind. It all depends on how justice will reacthe believes. There is almost attempted murder there! “
“CThey young, they risk practically nothing! Everything is done so that offenders can get out of it … I no longer believe in the justice of my country “, sighs the councilor.
This Monday, police from Bordeaux came to Gauriaguet. The meeting was planned for a long time and concerns a surveillance cameras installation file, one of which was arranged at the ball-trap.
