Mayor of Besançon Anne Vignot has filed a complaint after being the target of “extremely violent” cyber-harassment. First complaint from the elected official against anti-migrant signs brandished on Sunday during the carnival of his city.
“These essentializing remarks, which constitute incitement to hatred towards foreigners, led me to file a complaint the same day,” she recalled. 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. Another young woman was to be heard later. On Thursday, RN elected officials brandished identical signs in the middle of a session of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté regional council, to support the two young women, leading there also the PS president of the institution, Marie-Guite Dufay, to files a complaint for “incitement to hate”.