The mayor of Rouen announced that he would take legal action this Friday, after learning of an evening entitled “Foreigners outside”, planned in a bar in the city on June 28.
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol sent a letter to the prosecutor and recalled that racism “has no place in the Republic”.
An evening which provokes the indignation of the mayor. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the councilor of Rouen, contacted the public prosecutor and the prefect of Seine-Maritime this Friday, after discovering the holding of an evening called “Foreigners out” – literally, “Strangers outside” in German – in a bar in the city, on June 28. A phrase referring to a German racist slogan, increasingly taken up by the far right in Europe.
Such an evening “has nothing to do in Rouen, nor anywhere in Europe”, assures Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol on X this Friday. “Racism and xenophobia are the hallmark of the far right. They have no place in the Republic”continues the man who is also the first delegate secretary of the Socialist Party.
The community bar Le Mora, in which the event is to be held, shared a post on June 15 to announce the evening. The establishment is described by the mayor as “a right-wing identity bar”and to enter, you must have a membership card.
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In a letter addressed to the public prosecutor, the mayor of Rouen considers that this evening falls within the scope of the law, precisely “Article 1 of Law No. 90-615 of July 13, 1990 tending to suppress any racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic act, which provides: “Any discrimination based on membership or non-membership of an ethnic group, a nation , a race or religion is prohibited”, he writes. He recalls at the end of the letter that“in France racism is not an opinion, but an offense”.
