France Investigates Car Ramming Attack on French Mayor’s House

On Jul 2, 2023

Municipal police officers stand in front of the damaged home of the Mayor of l'Hay-les-Roses Vincent Jeanbrun, in l'Hay-les-Roses, a suburb of Paris on July 2, 2023, after rioters rammed a vehicle into the building injuring the Mayor's wife and one of his children overnight, during continued disturbances across France after a 17-year-old man was killed by police in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris on June 27. Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun wrote on Twitter that protesters "rammed a car" into his home before "setting a fire" while his family slept. (Photo by Geoffroy Van der Hasselt / AFP)

A public prosecutor’s office in France revealed today that they are looking into a car ramming incident on the home of L’Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun.

When speaking about the incident, the mayor said that the attack had hurt his wife and two of his two children.

The event, which the mayor referred to as a “unspeakably cowardly assassination attempt,” occurred at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday while he was in city hall, he added.

The mayor said that “individuals rammed their car into my home before setting it ablaze to burn my house, inside which my wife and my two young children slept.”

There are “no words strong” enough, he insisted, to convey his feelings on what transpired on Saturday night.

Following the murder of Nael, a 17-year-old teenager who was not carrying any weapons, on Tuesday, France has been dogged by controversy.

France has seen rallies since Nael’s death, with many denouncing the frightening rise in bigotry.