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The word "collaborator" tagged on the facade of the PCF, the party accuses the extreme right

2020-10-25T11:29:51.802Z


"We are attacked by the descendants of the Nazis, the French extreme right," said PCF national secretary Fabien Roussel, announcing his intention to file a complaint.


The word "collabo" was tagged on Saturday on the headquarters in Paris of the Communist Party, an act attributed to the far right by the national secretary Fabien Roussel.

"We are attacked by the descendants of the Nazis, the French extreme right," Fabien Roussel told AFP, judging particularly "shameful that we are attacking the Communist Party, which has been very present in the Resistance and which has paid dearly for its fight against the Nazi occupiers ”.

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A photo showing the tag "COLLABO !!"

inscribed in red ink on the white dome of the party's headquarters - a listed building in the 19th arrondissement by architect Oscar Niemeyer - was shared on Twitter by several politicians.

Fabien Roussel noted that this tag was inscribed two days after the anniversary of the death of communist resistant Guy Môquet, on October 22, 1941, which the PCF commemorates each year.

"Support for communist friends in the face of this abject and cowardly aggression," commented the boss of the Greens Julien Bayou, while the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon attacked "calls for lynching of the left by the #FN and #LREM ”.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party, La France insoumise, were criticized for a form of appeasement towards communitarianism and Islamism after the Islamist attack which saw the beheading of a teacher in the Paris suburbs, Samuel last week. Paty.

"I reaffirm that we will always be present to defend republican values ​​and to oppose all forms of fascism that still exist in the world today," Fabien Roussel told AFP.

The PCF, he added, will file a complaint after this act of vandalism.

Source: lefigaro

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