“Abject, shame, anger“: it is with these words that the mayor of Abbeville, Pascal Demarthe, expresses his dismay and his emotion after the discovery this Tuesday, December 10 of Nazi tags under the Naked Woman Bridge in Abbeville (Somme) by passers-by. The elected official indicates having “immediately requested that a complaint be filed and that all means in our possession be used to discover the perpetrator(s) of this act“. Pascal Demarthe condamne “with the greatest firmness” acts which “are a shame for our country, for history and [qui] must call for an extremely firm response.”
The tags have been disfigured a work by the artist Pedro Richardocommissioned by the Department of the Somme from the street-art group Curb. He also reacts on social networks by inviting the author(s)come take some classes at Curb!“.
Celine Autin
Nazi tags discovered in Amiens and Allonville
Already in November, several anti-Semitic tags appeared in the Somme: right in the Amiens city centeras well as in a small municipality of the metropolis, Allonville. The investigation is still ongoing. For the moment, it has not made it possible to identify one or more suspects.
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