Isère: Mayor in urgent need of emergency treatment after being attacked in his town
Gilles Dussault, 63, mayor of the Isère village of Villeneuve-de-Marc, was seriously injured this Wednesday while he was with his son. The attacker is wanted and on the run.
The mayor of a village in Isère was urgently hospitalized this Wednesday after being attacked in his town by a person armed with a blunt object, we learned from Dauphiné Libéré .
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Gilles Dussault, 63, mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc, a village of fewer than 1,200 inhabitants, was struck shortly before 5 p.m. with a blunt object by an unidentified person while he was walking along a street in the town with his 28-year-old son, firefighters said.
The alleged perpetrator is on the runThe mayor was urgently hospitalized at the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, while his son was taken to the hospital in Vienna in relative emergency, according to the same source.
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The alleged perpetrator of the attack fled in a vehicle he abandoned after hitting a wall, and escaped on foot, firefighters added. The police are still searching for him. When questioned, the Isère prefecture simply confirmed "the attack on the mayor."
On X, the Minister of Regional Planning, the socialist François Rebsamen , said he was "very shocked and moved by the violent attack on the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc and his son." "An elected representative of the Republic and his family attacked: it is intolerable. The attacker must be found and punished with the utmost firmness," he added.
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