the majority deputy M’jid El Guerrab sentenced to one year in prison and two years of ineligibility

The ex-LREM deputy M’jid El Guerrab was sentenced, Thursday, May 12 in Paris, to three years in prison, one of which is firm, and two years of ineligibility for the assault with a helmet on the former socialist leader Boris Faure, in 2017. The sentence of one year in prison will be converted into home detention with an electronic bracelet, said the Paris court. “He has nothing more to do in politics”reacted his victim on franceinfo.

The court also requested medical expertise from a neurologist to assess the sequelae suffered by Boris Faure after his head trauma. The 39-year-old MP will have to pay 2,520 euros for this expertise and deposit a provision of 15,000 euros for damages, the final amount of which will be fixed later. The deputy’s lawyer announced that his client was going to appeal. This judgment comes “In the middle of the countryside” and so “interferes with the political process”regrets Antoine Vey. The lawyer recalls that his client “has never, at any time, denied the facts explained the circumstances that led him there”claiming to be a victim of “provocation which led him to have this violent gesture”.

On August 30, 2017, an altercation broke out between the new LREM deputy for French people living abroad and the then first PS secretary of the Federation of French people living abroad, in front of a café in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. A dispute had opposed the two men since M’jid El Guerrab had chosen to leave the PS to run for the nomination of Emmanuel Macron’s party in the 2017 legislative elections. The tone had risen quickly between the two men and the deputy had struck two scooter helmet blows to the head of Boris Faure.

Suffering from a head trauma and a cerebral hemorrhage, Faure had undergone emergency surgery and had spent three days in intensive care, before being hospitalized again a few days later. His vital prognosis had been engaged for a time. Faced with the outcry caused by the case, M’jid El Guerrab resigned from the presidential party in September 2017, while keeping his parliamentary mandate. He then joined the group Agir Ensemble, which belongs to the majority.