Essonne: An LFI deputy injured by a mortar shot in a hair salon

On Saturday, in Évry-Courcouronnes, Farida Amrani was the victim of an “attack” which she considers “extremely serious”. The LFI MP for Essonne was in fact slightly injured by a mortar shot in a hairdressing salon.

An investigation was opened for aggravated intentional violence and entrusted to the territorial crime division, the Évry prosecutor's office said on Sunday evening, specifying that it was not able to indicate "at this stage" whether the elected official was "personally targeted". No arrests have taken place at this time. In a press release signed by her lawyer on Sunday on social networks, the elected official announced that she had filed a complaint.

The chosen one slightly injured in the thigh

Saturday morning around 11:20 a.m., a masked person opened the door of the hairdressing salon where Farida Amrani was and fired a mortar, according to a police source reporting the comments of the business manager. The deputy was slightly injured in the thigh. His sister and the salon manager, also present during the incident, were unhurt, the prosecution said.

The manager of the business "indicated that the mortar shot would have been directed towards a camera in her living room", potentially a "surveillance camera of the establishment", added the public prosecutor without specifying whether any leads were favored to explain the motivations of the shooter.

According to the police source, the shooting could constitute retaliation in connection with a deal point located near the salon, a hypothesis also put forward by Le Figaro – which revealed the affair – and Le Parisien.

“Absolutely revolting violence”

In her press release, Farida Amrani's lawyer describes “particularly striking” video surveillance images, which show “violent pyrotechnic projections inside the living room and significant smoke releases”. Images which “seriously suggest that the MP could have been specifically targeted”, believes the elected representative’s lawyer, Louise El Yafi.

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“This absolutely revolting violence calls for the strongest condemnation,” insists the lawyer, who wants the investigations to determine whether the elected official was “deliberately targeted because of her political commitment, the exercise of her parliamentary mandate and/or her origin or her membership, real or supposed, to a specific ethnic group or religion.”