INVESTIGATION – Two years after the election of the environmentalist mayor and his first far-left deputy, museums are closing and subsidies to city institutions are being reduced. This ideological reorientation arouses indignation.
Special correspondents in Strasbourg
This Monday, September 26, the municipal council of Strasbourg promises to be stormy. On the agenda, subsidies for cultural associations, exhibitions in 2023… Against a backdrop of scandal after the decision of Mayor Jeanne Barseghian (EELV) and her first deputy Syamak Agha Babaei to close museums two days a week and to reduce subsidies. After the finally aborted promise to give 2.6 million euros for the construction of a mosque carried by a confederation of Turkish obedience, described by Gérald Darmanin as fundamentalist, “this is a new major political fault. We are coming out of the Covid, the State has been irreproachable in terms of culture, this is not the time for communities to let go”, gets carried away Pascal Mangin, elected LR, former president of culture of the Grand Est region.
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