Saturday November 24, anti-Semitic tags were discovered on the door of the town hall and on the wall of a home in Allonvile, a town located near Amiens in the Somme. A shock for the inhabitants of this village. Elected officials denounce worrying and repeated acts, after the discovery of another tag of this type in the city center of Amiens two weeks earlier.
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There is amazement in this commune of the Somme with 775 inhabitants located near Amiens. Saturday November 24, an anti-Semitic tag was discovered on the door of the Allonville town hall, as well as on the wall of a house.
“I arrived at the town hall on Saturday morning to do duty and when I arrived, there was an anti-Semitic message on the town hall door.explains Aurore Vaillant, the secretary. So a big surprise because in Allonville, nothing ever happens.“
She immediately notifies the 1st deputy mayor who immediately arrives on the scene. “I was able to actually see, like her, the anti-Semitic remarks that were made in this message and the incitement to a certain violenceconfirms Danielle Lemaître. This is unacceptable to me, we don't think, in a village like ours, where there is a lot of harmony, that we could reach such extremes. This is quite worrying.”
The photo of the anti-Semitic message stencilled on the door of Allonville town hall.
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As for the residents, it’s a surprise. “It is normally a very quiet village. We don't have this kind of demonstrations here. I had heard about it in Amiens, but in Allonville, there is no real delinquency. I'm surprised and shocked, it's getting worse and worse and it's scary“, testifies a local resident.
Similar events actually occurred in Amiens on November 12. Swastikas have been sprayed in the city center. “The community is extremely concerned and from the moment we start seeing anti-Semitic tags and protests like that, it never ends wellestimates Michel Hanau, communications manager for the Jewish religious association of Amiens. I am from a generation where I did not know my grandparents because of this war and we thought that the stories they told us would not be repeated..”
What is notable is that it is accelerating. This affects everyone, all communities whether large or small.
Anne Pinon, vice president of Amiens Métropole
“Anti-Semitic acts, unfortunately, have existed for a long timedeplores Anne Pinon, vice-president of the Amiens conurbation. What is notable is that it is accelerating. This affects everyone, all communities whether large or small. We had Amiens, there we have Allonville so it is not trivial and above all what is striking is the acceleration, the multiplication of anti-Semitic acts, the hatred which is more and more violent“.
Elected officials are therefore demanding criminal responses. “We must condemn very quickly, publicly, as Audrey Boché, the mayor of Allonville, did on social networks, to put this debate on the table. We must act, we must contact the prosecutor, so that people are arrested, convicted and above all that the sentences are immediate.“
The deputy for the 1st constituency of the Somme, François Ruffin, agrees. “We must simply emphasize that anti-Semitism, like all racism, has no place in the Republic. And I am convinced that all my colleagues on the right and all my colleagues on the left say this and think it very deeply. I am certain that this problem will be taken seriously by the authorities, both on the police side and on the justice side, by the public prosecutor.“
A complaint was filed by the mayor of Allonville. Entrusted to the gendarmerie services, an investigation is underway to find the author(s) of these tags.
With Naïm Moniolle / FTV
