On Thursday, September 14, the prosecution requested a fine of 6,000 euros, including 2,000 suspended, against a graffiti artist who created a street-art fresco painted in Avignon and representing the economist Jacques Attali as a puppeteer who manipulates an Emmanuel Macron. Pinocchio, widely denounced as anti-Semitic.
France Télévisions – Culture Editorial
Published on 09/15/2023 5:50 p.m.
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The prosecution requested a fine of 6,000 euros, including 2,000 suspended, against a graffiti artist who created a street-art fresco painted in Avignon. The street artist, known under the name Letko, painted the economist Jacques Attali in June 2022 as a puppeteer who manipulates an Emmanuel Macron-Pinocchio.
This mural, painted on an electrical transformer at the northeast entrance to Avignon, immediately sparked controversy, widely denounced as anti-Semitic. The fresco was erased 72 hours later, at the initiative of the prefecture and the urban community.
Civil party NGOs
Jacques Attali had filed a complaint and Letko was tried on Thursday September 14 for public insult and provocation based on origin or religion. Several NGOs filed civil suits. The judgment was reserved until November 23.
Last April, another fresco by the same artist representing Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler, the number “49.3” written as a mustache, a reference to the article of the constitution used to pass pension reform through the National Assembly, had also created controversy before being also quickly erased.
