The amazement in Allonville, a town in the Somme which has barely 800 inhabitants. Saturday November 23, 2024, anti-Semitic tags were discovered on the door of the town hall as well as on the facade of a house. “We feel anger and incomprehension”reacted the mayor, Audrey Boché, at the microphone of France Blue Picardy .
The tags were erased after the intervention of the police. The public prosecutor of Amiens and the prefect of the Somme were contacted by the councilor, who also filed a complaint. “We find it difficult to understand how we end up with gestures like this in our campaigns”she continues to our colleagues.
“Worse and worse”
On the part of the residents, there is also astonishment. “I’m surprised and shocked, it’s getting worse and worse and it’s scary”entrusts a local resident to France 3 Hauts-de-France . An investigation was opened to try to find the author(s) of these anti-Semitic messages. According to Audrey Boché, the inhabitant of the tagged house would not be particularly targeted.
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If this is a first in Allonville, similar inscriptions and swastikas had already been found in Amiens on November 12. Anne Pinon, vice-president of the Amiens conurbation, calls for a rapid criminal response. “Anti-Semitic acts, unfortunately, have existed for a long time. What is notable is that it is accelerating”she said.
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