French mayor arrested for knocking down female ex-minister at campaign rally

Published time: 18 Jun, 2017 04:13
Edited time: 18 Jun, 2017 10:58

A mayor of a tiny village in Normandy has been taken into custody after he was identified as a suspect in Thursday’s assault on Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a French parliamentary candidate and former environment minister.

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, from the conservative Les Republicans party, was hospitalized following a brief faceoff with a man, identified by police as Vincent Debraize, the mayor of Champignolles, a commune of several dozen residents in Eure department in northern France.

Debraize was detained Saturday morning in Paris on charges of committing “intentional violence against a person conducting public services,” according to Kosciusko-Morizet's lawyer Xavier Autain, as cited by AFP.

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