Two teenagers aged 16 and 17 were indicted for "intentional violence in a meeting" and placed in pre-trial detention after the attack on an image reporter (JRI) from M6 on Tuesday June 6, in the Pissevin district. in Nîmes, plagued by violence linked to drug trafficking, announced the prosecution. Both "are domiciled in [this] district" and "one of them admitted his participation in the attack", specified the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, in a press release. A third man, an adult, who had also been taken into custody was "exonerated", she added.
Barely arrived Tuesday morning in Pissevin, the JRI of M6, based in Montpellier, had been beaten "standing and on the ground" by strangers, according to a police source. The day before, the mayor of Nîmes, Jean-Paul Fournier, had taken the decision to close until further notice the municipal media library of Pissevin due to the worsening of violence targeting members of its staff and the inhabitants of this district. The mayor had notably denounced the establishment of "barricades" and "checkpoints" by drug traffickers and the fact that the agents of the media library are subjected to "pat-downs in the middle of the street before accessing their post of work ".