LGBTQ flag. Photo credit: Bilyonaryo
The head of a French LGBTQ rights association was hospitalised after a nighttime attack in Paris, activists and prosecutors said on Sunday.
Pierre Picavet, a police officer and LGBTQ rights campaigner, was injured in an assault in the French capital overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
Picavet is president of FLAG!, a Paris-based association that brings together employees of France’s interior and justice ministries and works to combat discrimination against LGBTQ people.
As he left a bar in the historic Marais district in central Paris, Picavet was struck with a bottle and sustained multiple injuries, including internal bleeding and a head wound, according to the prosecutor’s office.
