ATTACK ON M. BLUM
TWO ROYALISTS SENTENCED MOVING PICTURE AS EVIDENCE PARIS, April 26 Two Royalists, Louis Courtois, insurance agent, and Leon Andurand, motor driver, were sentenced respectively to three months' and a fortnight's imprisonment as a sequel to their assault on M. Leon Blum on February 13. A motion picture of the attack showed them among the gesticulating crowd surrounding the motor-car, the occupants of which gave evidence that Courtois assaulted them.
A band of Royalists in Paris armed with loaded canes attacked and severely manhandled the Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum, when he was travelling home by car on February 13. The car was caught in a traffic block opposite the War Ministry building at the moment when the funeral procession of a Royalist historian, M. Vainvilhs, was passing. The Royalists allege that the occupants of the car claimed Parliamentary privilege to drive through the procession. The police seized an amateur's film of the attack.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22404, 28 April 1936, Page 11
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