In Marseille, an assistant to the mayor and his father tried Thursday for violence alleged against LFI activists

After forty-eight hours of police custody, the socialist sports assistant in the city of Marseille, Sébastien Jibrayel, and his father, Henri, ex-PS deputy, will be tried Thursday March 13 afternoon in immediate appearance for alleged violence against activists of rebellious France (LFI), said the prosecution.

They had been placed in police custody Tuesday for acts of violence in meeting, having led to a temporary incapacity for work “Not exceeding eight days”. Two other people will be tried with them, specifies the prosecution, announcing that they “Are referred to this [jeudi] morning for immediate appearance this afternoon “.

Sébastien Delogu, MP of Marseille, had denounced in January violence of “Relatives” from MM. Jibrayel against two “rebellious” activists, saying that the latter had filed a complaint and himself seized the prosecution.

The political future of Sébastien Jibrayel suspended at the hearing

January 18 “Two young“ rebels ”went to stick posters in the 16th^e Marseille arrondissement “in the district of the LFI deputy, and of the individuals “Close to the members of the Socialist Party Sébastien and Henri Jibrayel, present on the premises and principals, according to the testimonies of the activists, attacked them physically”said Delogu said in a statement.

The future of Sébastien Jibrayel in the left-wing municipal majority of the mayor DVG (ex-PS), Benoît Payan, is suspended from this hearing. A source close to the mayor said on Tuesday that “The work of justice and the current investigation allows[aie]to determine the facts and responsibilities of each ” and that “All necessary measures ser[aie]obviously taken accordingly “.

In 2020, the Marseille spring, a large alliance bringing together left and ecologists, but not LFI, had won the central town hall of Marseille, after twenty-five years of reign of the LR Jean-Claude Gaudin. With the good results of LFI in the legislative elections in several sectors of the city, Sébastien Delogu is increasingly being a potential candidate against the outgoing, Benoît Payan.