RN elected officers from Burgundy-Franche-Comté maintain up xenophobic posters in the course of the regional council | EUROtoday

The president of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté regional council, Marie-Guite Dufay (Socialist Party), introduced, Thursday April 11, her intention to file a criticism for “incitement to hatred” in opposition to elected representatives of the National Rally (RN) who held up xenophobic posters throughout a plenary session.

In the morning, the session was briefly interrupted when RN advisors held posters bearing the message at arm's size “Foreign rapists outside”, as an indication of assist for activists from a collective “identity feminist” from Besançon.

“We have to stop with these nauseating amalgams. The posters that were held up and the repeated comments associating immigrants and rape are intolerable anywhere and even more so in a Republican enclosure”declared the president, Marie-Guite Dufay. “I therefore decided to contact the public prosecutor (…). I also intend to file a complaint for incitement to hatred”underlined the elected official earlier than the lunch break.

Two activists from the Nemesis collective posted the identical message through the Besançon carnival on Sunday, which led to a criticism from town's mayor, Anne Vignot (Les Ecologistes).

One of them, aged 19, was positioned in police custody on Tuesday for a couple of hours, as a part of a preliminary investigation for “provocation of hatred or violence against a group of people because of their origin or an alleged race”.

“Untermensch”

During the regional council session, Julien Odoul, president of the RN group, additionally a deputy and spokesperson for the occasion, expressed his assist for these girls within the identify of the ” freedom of expression “. It was at this second that the RN councilors brandished their indicators, in response to the video transmission of the meeting.

Later, M^me Dufay denounced in a press launch the use by certainly one of these elected officers of a “expression borrowed from Nazi vocabulary”. An RN advisor, in response to her, used the time period “Untermensch”, which suggests “subhuman”, off microphone within the afternoon.

The National Union of Journalists (SNJ) additionally criticizes, in a press launch, the Nemesis collective for having copied on the location of The Republican East a photograph and a video of their motion taken by two journalists from the every day and to have them “published on its digital media”with out crediting them and “without the slightest authorization”.

“This is a clear violation of copyright, with the aim of serving a stinking ideology”the union is indignant. “Proceedings have been initiated (…) for infringement of copyright relating to content published by The Republican East »announced the title's general director, Christophe Mahieu, contacted by Agence France-Presse.

The SNJ additionally regretted that “certain media” And “very many elected officials of the RN” have “taken the video and photo of the journalists from The Republican East in their own publications by crediting them in turn with the name of the Nemesis collective, or with the name of the activists”.