Mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc (Isère), Gilles Dussault, 63, was the victim of a violent assault near his home on Wednesday August 6 at the end of the afternoon. The elected official was injured after receiving several blows from a pointed object, knife or screwdriver, carried by a resident of the town. The weapon was not found and the attacker fled.
The mayor underwent two wounds in the thorax and a defense wound, according to the elements communicated by the Vienna prosecutor’s office. His days were in danger when he was transported in an emergency to the Edouard-Herriot hospital in Lyon, but his condition quickly improved, and he was able to be heard by the investigators on Thursday. “He’s better. He has not lost consciousness. He feels pain because of the blows received ”said there at Monde Philippe Poizat, 67, first deputy of the town, who was able to speak on the phone with the mayor in the morning.
According to the account of the mayor, the attacker returned to the scene by car, while his son was helping him. He would have tried to hit them, before finishing his race against a low wall. He would have hit the son to get out. An investigation was opened for “attempted murder of a person depositary of the public authority” to the damage of the mayor and “aggravated violence” against his son, said the Vienna prosecutor’s office, confirming that the case was part of a context of ” dispute “ relating to questions of town planning and works, opposing the alleged perpetrator and the municipality.
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