The shocking attack is the latest in a series of ‘mask rage’ assaults that have already claimed the life of a bus driver during the Coronavirus pandemic.
It was in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a commuter town north of Paris, that the 44-year-old father was attacked.
Asked to be identified only as Augustin M., he said he had approached one of his attackers on Sunday afternoon because he was worried about the spread of Covid-19.
‘I asked him to put on his mask, but he refused,’ said Augustin, who was in a laundry in a Lidl supermarket car park. ‘The situation became tense.’
A verbal argument broke out, and a few minutes later one of the men involved returned with three friends, two of whom brandished baseball bats.
‘I was alone in the laundry room and this time two other men joined them,’ said Augustin.
They beat me up with baseball bats and I fell to the ground. They continued to hit me while I was on the ground and I passed out for a few minutes.’
His unidentified attackers then calmly left the laundry, while Augustin later filed a complaint to police for ‘aggravated violence’.
He suffered serious injuries led to him having to take six days off work, telling detectives that ‘I could have been killed!’
He was rushed to intensive care at the nearby Simone-Veil hospital and was diagnosed with a head trauma injury and severe bruising on the arms and legs.
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