The PCF mayor of Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis) Azzédine Taïbi was put on notice by the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis to modify the fresco " against racism and police violence ", indicated this Friday, July 3 elected to AFP. " The prefect is putting me on notice to delete the word" police "from the fresco. This injunction was that of the police union Alliance. I do not understand the meaning of this unfounded formal notice , "declared Mr. Taïbi who mandated his lawyer Arié Alimi" to study the follow-up to be given to the prefect ".
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Created by a collective of local artists and inaugurated more than a week ago in the presence of the mayor, this fresco represents, on a blue background decorated with clouds, the faces of George Floyd, black American asphyxiated by a white police officer during his arrest in the United States, and Adama Traoré, who died in July 2016 after his arrest by the gendarmes in Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise).
One sentence overhangs them: " Against racism and police violence ". This fresco had angered the Alliance union which had organized a rally on June 22 in front of the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture and a delegation had been received by the prefect.
At the same time in Stains, 150 people had gathered in front of the controversial fresco at the call of the Adama Traoré Committee. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner estimated the following day on Twitter that the fresco " staged a shameful amalgam between racism, violence and the police " and supported the " initiative " of the prefect of Seine-Saint- Denis.
