A fresco in Stains inaugurated recently in the presence of the mayor "against racism and police violence" , representing the faces of Adama Traore and George Floyd, has angered a police union, which calls to demonstrate before Monday.
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Made by a collective of local artists, it represents, on a blue background decorated with clouds, the faces side by side of George Floyd, died during his arrest in the United States and of Adama Traoré, young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest by the gendarmes at Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise). One sentence overlooks them: "Against racism and police violence."
It is a "final provocation by an elected representative of the Republic who stigmatizes the police" , denounced the union Alliance 93 on social networks, which calls for a "mobilization" in front of the fresco, Monday afternoon and asks "Let the sentence be repainted" . This call prompted a response from the Adama committee, which also called to visit the scene. "To erase my brother, to cover his face, is to deny his existence. (...) It is desecrating our dead ” , rebelled Assa Traoré on Sunday in an online video.
During the inauguration of the fresco last Thursday, Assa Traoré was present alongside the mayor (PCF), Azzédine Taïbi, of this popular city of Seine-Saint-Denis. "This call for assembly (from the Alliance union, editor's note) is a threat to public order that I cannot tolerate," reacted Azzédine Taïbi on Sunday, expressing her "concerns about the risks of overflow".
“At Stains, we have always denounced violence of any kind. (...) However, we will not stop denouncing the unacceptable behavior of certain police officers who exceed their rights, " he said in a press release. "This fresco is an artistic and pacifist expression, in support and tribute to all the victims of injustice," he said.
