After the attack on an M6 journalist on Tuesday June 6 and after 48 hours of investigation, two minors aged 16 and 17, living in the Pissevin district, were indicted for intentional violence in a meeting. They were both remanded in custody.
The investigation went very quickly. Just 48 hours after the attack on an M6 journalist at Pissevin in Nîmes, two minors aged 16 and 17 and living in the neighborhood, were presented this Thursday, June 8, 2023 to an investigating judge, indicates Cécile Gensac , public prosecutor in Nîmes, in a press release.
They were put on trial”leaders of intentional violence in a meeting”, explains the prosecutor who specifies that one of them has admitted his participation in the facts. The two teenagers were remanded in custody.
A third individual, placed in police custody, was finally exonerated.
Cécile Gensac made a point of emphasizing “the particular efficiency and responsiveness of the public highway police services having also contributed, alongside the investigators of the investigation services, to the fine identification of the suspects and their arrest.”
She adds that investigations will continue. “in order to refine the context and the methods of commission of the facts.”
Barely arrived Tuesday morning in Pissevin, a journalist from the M6 television channel based in Montpellier had been struck “standing and on the ground” by strangers, his camera. He was doing a report in the reputedly sensitive district, near the Marc-Bernard media library, a public facility that the town hall of Nîmes has decided to close due to the permanent presence of drug traffickers.
On patrol in the area, the police intervened and took charge of the image reporter. He was hospitalized and his camera was broken by the attackers.
Nearly 50 additional police arrived in Nîmes on Wednesday “in order to guarantee public peace” in the words of Gérald Darmanin. They are assigned to the sensitive neighborhoods Pissevin and Valdegour which total 16,000 inhabitants after the aggressions and the recent violence.