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French mayor attacked - family injured  

 

Annica Ögren  

Updated 10:14 | Published at 08:26 

 

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A house belonging to the French mayor Vincent Jeanbruns was attacked during the night of Sunday. 

 

In the house were his wife and their two small children.  

 

The wife was injured and taken to hospital, according to French media.  

 

Protesters in France drove a car into French mayor Vincent Jeanbrun's house, in a suburb south of Paris, at 01:30, Norwegian VG reports with reference to the NTB news agency.  

 

The mayor's wife and their two small children were sleeping in the house when the incident occurred, the mayor himself states in a post on Twitter. 

 

In connection with the incident, the house started to burn.  

 

Vincent Jeanbrun's wife has been taken to hospital, according to French media.  

 

There is currently no information on the state of damage.  

 

A police operation is underway where they are actively looking for suspected perpetrators.  

 

As of Sunday morning, no one had been arrested. The incident is now being investigated by prosecutors and is classified as attempted murder, according to the French channel BFMTV.

 

"Coward"  

 

Vincent Jeanbrun Photo: Antoine Madelin  

 

Vincent Jeanbruns himself was not at home at the time of the attack, but writes in a post on Twitter about the incident:  

 

"Last night the riots reached a peak when my home was attacked and my family became the victim of an unimaginably cowardly attempted murder," writes Jeanbrun.  

 

"My family was the victim of an attempted murder," he writes further.  

 

The protests in France began after a 17-year-old was shot dead by police in Paris. 

 

Police on scene outside Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun's home which was attacked during the night. Photo: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP