Seeing the businessman, several people broke away from the crowd, after a small verbal skirmish, they threw Tronier to the ground and began to beat him. “They insulted the president, his wife and our family, then attacked him,” Jean-Alexandre Tronier told AFP. “They crossed a line. I’m stunned.” According to Tronier Sr., also a pastry chef, his son was rescued by three neighbors across the street who managed to calm the crowd. “One of them thought he was going to kill my son,” the victim’s father said.
Jean-Baptiste Tronier suffered numerous injuries: fractures of several ribs and fingers, serious contusions on the head. The detainees in the high-profile case face several charges, including “brutal assault by a group of people”, for which, under the French penal code, they risk a long prison sentence. “Several of our stores have already been attacked. The attackers are convinced that our small business belongs to Emmanuel Macron and that everything related to it must be destroyed. He (the president) has nothing to do with our business, and we are not responsible for what Macron does, “insists Jean-Alexandre Tronier. Brigitte Macron’s relatives have been running the Jean Trogneux chocolate factory for six generations in the heart of his hometown of Amiens, specializing in a local delicacy made from almonds known as Macaron d’Amiens.
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