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Perros-Guirec: the stele in homage to Simone Veil covered with swastikas

2021-08-11T13:01:08.750Z


This is the third time in a week that the monument has been the target of acts of vandalism. This time the stele was covered with about a


The escalation of acts of vandalism on the stele of Simone Veil plunges the town of Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor) into fear.

This Wednesday, the monument was discovered covered with swastikas.

Perros-Guirec.

The Simone Veil stele covered with swastikas https://t.co/eR6H2Zf3Zq

- Ouest-France (@OuestFrance) August 11, 2021

"This morning, we discovered that the stele of Mrs. Simone Veil was covered with tags with swastikas," said the Côtes-d'Armor gendarmerie, confirming information from Ouest-France.

An investigation was entrusted to the research brigade (BR) of Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor).

The third time in a week

An act "inadmissible" and "incomprehensible", according to the city councilor, Erven Leon, who explains that the "stele is regularly decorated with flowers by the Perrosians".

In addition to the swastikas, a Star of David and anti-Semitic language were painted in red.

Read also A bust of Simone Veil vandalized in La Roche-sur-Yon

Last Monday, the monument had already suffered from damage.

Mustard and excrement had been smeared on the stone.

In all, this is the third time that the monument has been targeted in just over a week.

According to the mayor, another degradation took place during the night at the senior residence Les Jardins d'Arcadie with a tag targeting, this time, President Emmanuel Macron.

Simone Veil (1917-2017), who was deported to Auschwitz, notably left her name in 1975 to the law legalizing voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) and was former President of the European Parliament (1979-1982). Also an academic, she was president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (2001-2007). She entered the Pantheon in 2018.

Source: leparis

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