Bordeaux: Attacked by three hooded men on the fringes of the Sciences Po blockade, an LFI activist reportedly filed a complaint

The events took place during the night of Tuesday 18 to Wednesday 19 February. A young activist from La France Insoumise, aged 25, was attacked by three hooded men who beat him up, while he had moved slightly away from the assembly point for the Sciences Po blockade, in Pessac, near Bordeaux .

"We had spotted several suspicious people driving around the university. Our comrade was ambushed. They said these words during the attack: we are not stealing anything from him, we are not taking anything from him. This is not a racket, but a political action," assures Lucina, co-facilitator of the Young Insoumis in Bordeaux. According to the young man's testimony, one of the attackers filmed the scene, and a fourth was waiting for his accomplices in a car. The LFI activist finally managed to escape and join his friends near the university. The Young Insoumis told Le Figaro that he filed a complaint on Saturday morning. Contacted several times, the Bordeaux national police neither confirmed nor denied the existence of this complaint.

On the X platform, Clémence Guetté, LFI MP, gave him her support, writing that " the facts seem to indicate that the four men involved in this attack were members of the fascist collective La Bastide Bordelaise."

For its part, La Bastide Bordelaise, reacted on Instagram following these accusations. "For several days, the filthy left has been blocking the faculty and preventing students from working (sic)," we can read in a press release. "This same left, between two warm 8.6s (beers, editor's note) , then comes to accuse us of a so-called assault that one of our members allegedly committed. Obviously, no evidence will be put forward to support this slanderous accusation," writes the group.

In this context, the Bordeaux-Montaigne and Sciences Po universities have been blocked for a week. Students are demonstrating against the university's budget cuts, but also "against the extreme right" . Some, who do not agree with these blockades, denounce provocations and stigmatization on the part of the demonstrators. "We don't think like them so we are singled out. There is a lot of intimidation, we are called fascists at every turn. It is the supremacy of the left and the extreme left", denounces a student, member of the UNI and the Republicans, who announced that he would send an email to denounce these actions.

General meetings were held this Tuesday to decide whether to continue the blockades of the two Bordeaux universities.