Four Detained After Masked Disruption of LFI Mayor’s Campaign Event Near Lille

Overview

• About 10–15 masked individuals entered Patrick Proisy’s March 6 meeting in Faches‑Thumesnil, unfurled banners including “LFI hors de nos mairies,” “Nouvelle droite” and “Justice pour Quentin,” and threw fake blood, flour and cans.
• Police intervened, arrested four suspects and the event resumed with no injuries reported; Proisy said he will file a complaint.
• The Lille prosecutor said custody was prolonged for four people, aged 23 to 40, on counts including aggravated group damage, aggravated violence, complicity and “happy slapping” for allegedly filming the assault.
• LFI figures Aurélien Le Coq and Jean‑Luc Mélenchon labeled the attackers far‑right or neo‑Nazi and urged action, including the dissolution of the group cited on the banners.
• LFI points to other recent incidents against its candidates in Strasbourg and Toulouse, and the slogans referenced the February death in Lyon of far‑right activist Quentin Deranque.