Swastikas and homophobic inscriptions on a war memorial near Valenciennes

“Escautpont wakes up in shock! » Swastikas and homophobic inscriptions were drawn on the night of Tuesday May 7 to Wednesday May 8 on the war memorial in Escautpont, a town located north of Valenciennes (North), announced the town hall, which will file a complaint. “Last night, the war memorial which will be inaugurated this morning at the end of the memorial ceremony was tagged with swastikas and homophobic inscriptions”can we read on the town hall’s Facebook page.

“By this abject act, it is the memory of our deaths for France that is insulted,” as well as the mayor, who “is attacked directly both in his position and in his personal life”, continues the town hall. It specifies that a complaint must be filed and ensures that “hate and attempts at division will not win”.

The national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, also a deputy from the North, denounced the tags to Agence France-Presse “revealers of an increasingly extremist climate”of a “rise of the extreme right and xenophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic ideas”.

Posters also tagged in Mulhouse

The monument was to be inaugurated as part of the commemorations of May 8, 1945. “For the mayor, for elected officials, for municipal staff and more generally for the entire city, this morning was to be a morning of commemoration, joy and pride… Well, it will be like that! We hope to see many of you! », concluded the town hall on its Facebook message, before thanking the “ municipal agents who mobilized this morning to give the monument all the dignity it should inspire in us.”

In Mulhouse Wednesday morning, “neo-Nazis” tagged the posters of Léon Deffontaines, head of the communist list in the European elections, also pointed out Mr. Roussel, photos of posters with the inscriptions “Death to the Reds” And “88” (in reference to the doubling of the eighth letter of the alphabet, HH, for ” Heil Hitler “) supporting.