The home of a mayor in a Paris suburb was attacked while his family slept at home during riots in France. Rioters rammed the house with a car on Sunday night and set it on fire, wrote Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, on Twitter. His wife and one of his children were injured. According to the television broadcaster BFMTV, the public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into attempted murder.
The mayor himself was still in the town hall that night. The agency’s building was barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by police because of attempted attacks. However, the private home where the mayor’s wife slept with their two young children was not secured. The perpetrators rammed the gate of his home with a car and then set fire to the car, the family car and several garbage cans. The woman and children fled through the garden while the attackers fired at them with firecrackers, according to the franceinfo TV channel.
France has been shaken by violent unrest since a 17-year-old was shot dead by a police officer on Tuesday. Several hundred people were arrested every night, there was looting, arson attacks and violence between police officers and rioters.
