The home of a Paris suburb mayor was ram-raided and set alight while his wife and children were asleep inside during the unrest that has gripped the country following Tuesday's shooting of a teenager by a police officer, the official said on Sunday.
L'Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun reacts at the damage to the city hall in L'Hay-les-Roses, after his home was also ram-raided and set alight while his wife and children were asleep inside, during the unrest that has gripped the country, in L'Hay-les-Roses near Paris, France July 2, 2023. REUTERS/ Yves Herman
Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of the southern suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses, said his wife and one of their two children, aged five and seven, were injured as they fled the building in the early hours. "At 01:30 a.m., as I was in the town hall just like the two previous nights, people ram-raided my home before starting a fire to torch my house, where my wife and my two young children were sleeping," Jeanbrun said on his Twitter account.
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