Four people taken into custody after disrupting an LFI meeting in Faches-Thumesnil

The Lille prosecutor's office (Nord) announced the detention of four far-right activists suspected of disrupting the campaign rally of La France Insoumise mayor and candidate Patrick Proisy in Faches-Thumesnil on Friday, March 6. Four people were arrested and taken into custody after disrupting a campaign meeting for Patrick Proisy, the LFI mayor of Faches-Thumesnil (Nord) and candidate for re-election, on the evening of Friday, March 6, the Lille prosecutor's office announced on Saturday, March 7. On Friday evening, about fifteen people entered the hall. the meeting in Faches-Thumesnil, confirmed the Lille prosecutor's office. Part of the group was contained outside the building by security guards, he specified. Carrying signs with messages such as "New Right," "LFI out of our town halls," and "Justice for Quentin," referring to the murder of far-right activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon in February, the troublemakers positioned themselves in front of the stage before throwing various projectiles, including red paint and flour, according to the prosecutor's office. The individuals then fled, and four of them—three men and one woman born between 1986 and 2003—were arrested by the police, the prosecutor's office continued. prosecutor's office.

"The municipality, the basic field of democracy"

They were taken into custody and were still being held on Saturday evening for aggravated vandalism and violence committed as a group against an elected official, and for complicity in violence, as some of them filmed the scene.

When questioned on Saturday by AFP, Mayor Patrick Proisy, who said he had been flour-bombed, stated his intention to file a complaint.

From his anonymous account, LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused "fifteen hooded neo-Nazis from Paris and the North" of causing the disturbances and praised "the comrades from the Insoumis security service who protected the participants and subdued the thugs without violence."

LFI deputy for the North, Aurélien Le Coq, was present At the meeting in Faches-Thusmenil, he also declared on X "a new step in the fascist slide".