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Swastikas, anti-Semitic tags and “Zemmour 2022” were discovered this Sunday morning, tagged on the premises of the Socialist Party section of Douarnenez in Finistère, according to the Departmental Federation, which announced the filing of a complaint . “The local comrades discovered this this (Sunday) morning at 8 o’clock. It was an unpleasant awakening for everyone, ”said Tristan Foveau, First Secretary of the Finistère Federation of the Socialist Party.
Tags without real “ideological clarity”
The official specified that the tags represented swastikas, Z, anti-Semitic tags, “ACAB” (All cops are bastards) or the sickle and the hammer. “I’m not sure there is total ideological clarity among the perpetrators of this act,” he acknowledged. “But it is still the sign of a fairly deep democratic tension (…) in a campaign that is already not easy”, he added.
The elected socialist of Douarnenez, Florence Crom, denounced “an attack on public debate and democracy”, 2 weeks before the first round of the presidential election. “It’s not just the Socialist Party that is under attack, it’s political pluralism,” she wrote on Twitter.
The PS mayor of Morlaix (Finistère) denounced on Twitter a “foolish and intolerable act with unspeakable Nazi and anti-Semitic references”. “Shame on the authors! “, he added. The Federation and the local have filed a complaint, according to the same source. Béatrice Hakni-Robin, deputy mayor of Rennes and former vice-president of the departmental council of Finistère, regrets for her part, “infamous anti-Semitic degradations”, and “unacceptable acts which seriously undermine democracy and must be firmly condemned.