National Rally councilors raised anti-immigration signs in plenary session. They justified posters bearing the message "Foreign rapists out" in support of activists from a "feminist identity" collective in Besançon.
The socialist president of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté regional council announced Thursday her intention to file a complaint for “incitement to hatred” The National Union of Journalists also criticized the Némésis collective for having copied on the Est Républicain website a photo and a video of their action taken by two journalists from the daily. “This is a clear violation of copyright, with the aim of serving a stinking ideology,” the union lambasted. “We have to stop with these nauseating amalgams. The posters that were brandished and the repeated comments associating immigrants and rape are intolerable anywhere and even more so in a Republican enclosure,’ President Marie-Guite Dufay solemnly declared.