Anne Vignot, mayor of Besançon, filed a complaint after being the target of “extremely violent” cyberharassment. The elected official complained about anti-migrant signs brandished on Sunday during her carnival city.
One of the activists who held up a sign on Sunday, a 19-year-old student in Economic and Social Administration, was taken into police custody on Tuesday for several hours before being released. On Thursday, RN elected officials held up identical signs in the middle of a session of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Regional Council, to support the two young women. “I denounce this shameful action which aims, under cover of an alleged unlimited right to freedom of expression, to transform our deliberative assemblies into sounding boards for hatred against immigrants,” said the mayor. The PS president of the institution, Marie-Guite Dufay, also denounced the use by one of these elected officials of an “expression borrowed from Nazi vocabulary”