The LFI deputy for Marseille Sébastien Delogu is accused of violence during the blockade of a high school in 2023 in the Marseille city. He then allegedly gave “small kicks” to two National Education executives.
The public prosecutor requested this Tuesday, January 7, a six-month suspended prison sentence against LFI deputy Sébastien Delogu, accused of having “lightly kicked” two National Education executives on the sidelines of a high school blockade in 2023 in Marseille.
A “virulent exchange”, according to the court, followed between the principal and L, who allegedly kicked the CPE twice, and another to the deputy principal, who tried to intervene.
His lawyer, Yonès Taguelmint, denounced him as a “political affair from A to Z”.
Accused of “aggravated violence”
The 37-year-old deputy from the northern districts of Marseille is accused of “aggravated violence” against the assistant principal and the principal education advisor (CPE) of a Marseille high school, civil parties, and of having refused to submit to fingerprinting.
The events took place in front of the Saint-Exupéry high school (15th arrondissement), around 7 a.m. when around ten hooded high school students tried to block the entrance to the high school with garbage containers to protest against the reform project. pensions.
Present alongside strikers from a factory located opposite the school, Sébastien Delogu explained to the audience that he had intervened after seeing a high school student held down by members of the school management.
A “virulent exchange”, according to the court, followed between the principal and the deputy, who allegedly kicked the CPE twice, and another to the deputy principal, who tried to intervene.
The two high school officials, who became civil parties, were granted one day of temporary work interruption (ITT).
Sébastien Delogu himself had filed a complaint for “violence”, claiming to have been hit by a garbage container, but this complaint was dismissed, despite a certificate drawn up, according to his lawyer, by the doctor of the National Assembly mentioning a hematoma on the hip.
