A septuagenarian and her granddaughter were attacked on Monday June 19 in Bordeaux in front of their home. The scene of “rare violence” according to the prefecture was filmed and the images made it possible to arrest a suspect.
It was an attack of “rare violence” that targeted a grandmother and her granddaughter in Bordeaux. The Gironde prefecture itself denounced the facts on Twitter adding that a suspect has already been taken into custody. This “intolerable act” of violence occurred on the course of Martinique on Monday, June 19 in the “late afternoon […] against a 73-year-old woman at her home and her granddaughter, a minor child under the age of 15,” said the Girondin capital.
The state of health of the two victims was not detailed, the authorities simply let it be known that the septuagenarian was transported and examined at the hospital after the attack and that “her vital prognosis is not engaged”.
Regarding the suspect arrested, it would be a Frenchman born in Bordeaux in 1993 and very unfavorably known to the police according to a police source from BFMTV. The exploitation of a video filming the attack on the septuagenarian and her granddaughter, among other things, allowed the arrest of the suspect. AFP for its part could not verify the images of the video.
The images broadcast in the evening by the former mayor of Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian, on Twitter show the two victims on their doorstep and then returning home, when a man forcibly rushes inside the home. The assailant then knocks the elderly woman and her granddaughter to the ground before grabbing something off the sidewalk and fleeing.
The video of the assault has since been picked up and shared by many internet users, including politicians. While everyone deplores the actions of the aggressor, far-right elected officials do not fail to denounce and challenge the government on “the savagery that plagues our society”. The executive also reacted to the video through the voice of government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, guest on France 2 this Tuesday, June 20: “This grandmother could be our grandmother to all. This aggravated theft illustrates the need for security for the French”. And to condemn “gratuitous violence”.
