Prisca Thevenot and her campaign team were attacked by a group of four men, all of whom are reported to be from a migrant background
The identities of a group of young men who attacked a French minister and her campaign team have been withheld by authorities over fears their release could provoke anti-immigrant sentiment and bolster support for the French right in the country’s parliamentary election, it is claimed.
Prisca Thevenot, a junior minister in the Macron government, and her campaign team were attacked last Wednesday by four young men while putting up posters in the Parisian suburb of Meudon.
Thevenot herself escaped injury, but one member of her team suffered a broken jaw and another was beaten. Both ended up in hospital.
Thevenot told Le Parisien that she and her group were attacked when they confronted the men in the act of vandalising posters. “Everything happened very, very quickly,” she said.
In a post on Twitter, she announced an end to in-person campaigning.
“Violence is never the answer. I will end my campaign on the ground,” she posted.
Four suspects have now been arrested: an adult and three minors.
No further details of the shocking incident have been released, but journalists have claimed that information about the background of the attackers has been deliberately withheld by authorities and the minister herself, because it might prove valuable to Macron’s main opponents, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), in the final round of the parliamentary elections, which takes place today.
“You won’t hear it on TV but one of Prisca Thevenot’s attackers is called Wacim, another is Ivorian. They will try to hide the information until Sunday. A minister who is attacked by scum… that could boost the RN,” wrote journalist Damien Rieu on Twitter.
Vous ne l’entendrez pas à la TV mais l’un des agresseurs de @priscathevenot s’appelle Wacim, un autre est ivoirien.
Ils vont essayer de cacher l’information jusqu’à dimanche. Un ministre qui se fait attaquer par des racailles… ça pourrait faire monter le RN.
— Damien Rieu (@DamienRieu) July 4, 2024
Another journalist reported that the men were a “the same people who caused the riots last year,” when far-left activists took to the street to protest the shooting of Nahel Merzouk by police.
“The residents are a bit annoyed. They don’t understand why the authorities only resort to arrests when a female politician is attacked, while they are subjected to this gang every day,” he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a trouncing in the first round of the parliamentary elections, which took place at the end of last month. Le Pen’s National Rally won 34% of the vote, well ahead of Macron Together alliance, which only managed 20%.
Macron called the snap election in response to a similarly crushing defeat in the recent EU elections. This gamble may backfire spectacularly on him, effectively sabotaging the remaining two years of his final term, but there is still plenty of room for the standard political horseplay that has prevented Le Pen père and now Le Pen fille from winning in the past.
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