Gérald Darmanin was violently grabbed on Thursday April 18 near Pointe-à-Pitre in the premises of the Guadeloupe 1re channel by a young man who was immediately arrested and placed in police custody. The minister was not injured, according to witnesses at the scene. He then recorded his interview as planned.
The events took place while the Minister of the Interior came to record an interview in the premises of this television, in Baie-Mahault, at the end of his trip to Guadeloupe during which he announced the establishment of a covering fire from 8 p.m. for miners in Pointe-à-Pitre, a city described as
“cut-throat”
by its mayor.
A man
“in his twenties”
approached the minister, asking to speak to him, two witnesses who wished to remain anonymous told AFP. The minister held out his hand to him and it was then that the man grabbed him quickly by the arm and shoulders before being overpowered by the minister's security men, described one of the two witnesses. The man was taken into custody at the Baie-Mahault gendarmerie, according to the source close to the case.