The Minister of the Interior is in Bayonne this Saturday, where he was fatally shot by a bus driver. The prime minister condemned the crime, “abject”.
The Minister of the Interior is in Bayonne this Saturday, where he was fatally shot by a bus driver. The prime minister condemned the crime, “abject”.
The emotion remains strong. The bus driver, in desperate condition since his violent attack Sunday night in Bayonne, died late Friday afternoon, sparking a political backlash, particularly among the right-wing, who called for “tougher sanctions.”
“We decided to let him go. The doctors were in favor and so were we,” 18-year-old Mary Monguillot said of her father Philippe. A little earlier, his mother Veronique had to announce on social networks: “My husband is free at 17:30, RIP my love”.
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According to the public prosecutor of Bayonne, the driver, a 59-year-old father of two girls aged 21 and 24, was the victim of an attack, “extreme violence”, beaten and seriously wounded in the head, so that he wanted to check the ticket of one person and demanded to wear a mask for another three passengers.
Castex condemns “crime, abject”
The attack, and then the announcement of his death, caused outrage among his colleagues, who exercised their right to withdraw from Monday, and in the political world. Prime Minister Jean Castex welcomed the memory of the “loosely assaulted” bus driver in the evening, assuring on Twitter that “justice will punish the perpetrators of this despicable crime”.
“This heinous and cowardly act must not go unpunished,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who is expected to speak to elected officials and other government agencies in Bayonne on Saturday about security in the city and meet drivers, also tweeted in the afternoon. Before him, the Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari was on the road on Tuesday evening and spoke to the drivers of the transport network of the Bayonne agglomeration called Chronoplus.
In the ranks of the right, the case revived demands for authority and tougher sanctions. LR MP Eric Ciotti called for “stricter sanctions against (the) death” just like his rival, the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, because “this barbaric act is called the strictest sanctions”. For Senator Bruno Retailleau (LR), “there will be no effective fight against this savagery without the return of authority and the end of laxity, systematicity,” he felt on Twitter.
“This murder must not go unpunished”
“To kill simply to enforce the rules. This murder must not go unpunished. The punishments should be exemplary and the punishments actually carried out,” Hauts-de-France regional council president Xavier Bertrand (former RL) responded on Twitter. Describing the alleged assailants of “riffraff” drivers, the president of the national assembly, Marine Le Pen, called it “astonishment and revolt before this savagery” on the social network.
Aged 22 and 23 and known to police, the two men suspected of carrying out the beatings were charged and arrested for “attempted voluntary manslaughter,” a legal classification known to develop following a victim’s death.
Two men accused
The prosecutor of the Republic of Bayonne has announced that he will ask the investigating judge to reclassify these indictments as “intentional murder of an employee of the public transport network”. Two alleged helpers, in their thirties, were also arrested this week, including for “failing to assist a person in danger”.
Bus drivers in the Bayonne conurbation will resume work on Monday “under conditions of increased security”, according to transport operator Keolis. “The Keolis teams remain mobilized in all our networks, in France and in the world, so that this kind of aggression does not happen again, and that our public transport continues to be an area of life where respect for people and property becomes a responsibility. of all,” assured Keolis in a press release.
Philippe Monguillot “succumbed to an attacked barbarian in the exercise of his profession. A faithful public servant, he leaves the image of a generous man,” responded the mayor of Bayonne, Jean-René Etchegaray on Twitter.
Date of update: 11 July 2020, 04:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn