Val-d’Oise MP Aurélien Taché is accused of insulting police officers. An investigation was launched after a fight in Niort in the Deux-Sèvres as a result of which
the former member of LREM allegedly made outrageous remarks to members of law enforcement.
“An investigation is underway,” the Niort prosecutor’s office told an AFP correspondent on Wednesday, adding that the Departmental Directorate of Public security (DDSP) had “not filed a complaint”. The Alliance union, which denounces “a new slip of an elected official of the Republic,” had indicated in a statement on Wednesday that a complaint had been filed by the DDSP of Deux-Sèvres.
A “public apology” expected
“You guys are crap bastards. “The deputy allegedly uttered this sentence following an assault in a bar in Niort on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, reports the newspaper Le Point. The SGP police union in Niort will “at least ask for a public apology if the facts are proven,” said its representative Pascal Valès.
Contacted by AFP, the deputy did not want to speak. According to his lawyer, Me Jade Dousselin, the elected official “was the victim of an assault”, receiving “numerous blows including to the head and face”, which earned him two days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT).
“State of shock”
“These words, whose violence he can only regret, were uttered (…) while he was in a state of shock related to the physical and psychological shock he had just suffered,” she explained.
Elected deputy of the Val-d’Oise in June 2017 under the label La République en Marche, Aurélien Taché resigned from the party
Emmanuel Macron three years later, before founding the “New Democrats” party with other ex-marchers.