“I lived ten years in Seine-Saint-Denis, I was mayor of a city there without ever having any problems, and I have to come to Dijon, a city known to be calm to be hit and attacked. “ Yannick Hoppe is still in shock. The federal secretary of the Socialist Party of Paris, former mayor of Le Bourget in the Paris region, chose to show his wounds bloody on social networks to denounce the aggression of which he was the victim.
Friday evening, May 12, this man who grew up in Dijon is back in his city with a friend. After dinner, the two men decide to take a walk along the shores of Lake Kir. “We were not far from the first car park, in a very busy area. My friend moved away to go and urinate in a grove. A man appeared and hit him, shouting “Here is your sentence!” and then he added “It’s not over. We understood that he was armed with a knife. We fled, but I was caught and hit three times in the thigh and lower back. Violent blows like punches. I heard him shout “Death to the pederasts!” It was after that I saw the blood.
“In 2023, homophobia kills and can still kill” comments Yannick Hoppe. “That’s why we decided to testify. There is no question of leaving this kind of thing overwhelmed by silence. We have also filed a complaint with the Dijon police station and an investigation is open.”
An ambush phenomenon
This violent attack despairs Antoine Hoareau. The deputy mayor of Dijon in charge of solidarity is clearly aware that this attack is not an isolated act: “It is indeed a place where there have been a number of attacks in recent months, in particular ambushes, which were organized on dating applications by ill-intentioned people who wanted to “hit the fag” to resume their expression, and who wanted to attack people because of their homosexuality.”
“We have constant work with the police, but there cannot be a policeman behind each person and we do not live in a police state. That is the difficulty of managing to identify the perpetrators of these attacks. .”
“We’re not going back to the closet!”
“All these reactionaries, these fundamentalists would like us to live in hiding, to go back to the closet. Well, we’re going to tell them no. We’ve left the closet and we’re not going to go back there. continue to defend our rights to ensure that every individual, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, can live with dignity in our republican society” promises the deputy mayor. According to the association SOS Homophobia,
the number of homophobic attacks is on the rise in France. Their number increased by 28% between 2021 and 2022.
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