12 Mar 2021
French MP Jean-Christophe Lagarde, president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), was arrested this week after being accused of possessing undeclared weapons.
Lagarde, who serves as an MP for the notorious Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, was taken into custody on Wednesday night at this home in Drancy and held overnight by police in the commune of Bobigny after members of his family claimed to police that the MP expressed a desire to end his own life.
The relatives told police at around 1 am that Lagarde was also armed and police stated that on the way to the home of the MP, a “detonation” could be heard, broadcaster Europe1 reports.