Overview

• Emergency services found the 56-year-old senator unconscious on Boulevard Saint-Germain in the 6th arrondissement shortly before 8 a.m.
• He showed visible contusions to the nose and head with blood observed, and the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed a state of public intoxication.
• First responders say he refused medical treatment and displayed confused, incoherent behavior reported by police sources and Paris Match.
• He resisted efforts to take him to a hospital, was handcuffed to secure the intervention, and was taken to a local station for placement in a sobering cell.
• He represents Deux-Sèvres, chairs the Senate Social Affairs committee, serves as an adviser to the resigned interior minister Bruno Retailleau, and his office has not provided comment as the circumstances remain unclear.