The story repeats itself.
The stele erected in homage to Simone Veil on the forecourt of the Town Hall of Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor) was again targeted by degradation in the morning of Saturday, we learn in Ouest-France and The Telegram.
The stele in memory of Simone Veil degraded for the fourth time in two weeks in Perros-Guirec #Bretagne https://t.co/ctfqkA8nvy pic.twitter.com/qEErKU7ZzJ
- The Telegram (@LeTelegramme) August 14, 2021
The message "responsible for genocide" was inscribed in blue paint on the side of the monument, inaugurated in 2017 in memory of the academician, who was deported to Auschwitz, and who in 1975 gave her name to the law legalizing the voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion).
Simone Veil was also President of the European Parliament (1979-1982) and President of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (2001-2007).
She entered the Pantheon in 2018.
The prefect Thierry Mosimann condemns with the greatest firmness the new degradation of the stele in tribute to #SimoneVeil to #PerrosGuirec.
This act was committed early this morning.
Anyone with information is invited to contact the gendarmerie.
- Prefect of Côtes-d'Armor (@ Prefet22) August 14, 2021
According to the prefect Thierry Mosimann, the act of degradation, which he "condemns with the greatest firmness", "was committed early" this Saturday morning.
A call for witnesses has been launched to gather more information.
Repeated acts
This act is the fourth of its kind since the beginning of August, recalls Le Télégramme.
“It's a crazy story, it's endless!
», Indignant the mayor of the town, Erven Léon, near the Telegram.
The interfaith collective Lannon-Perros Espoirs notably called for a meditation on Sunday, at 11:30 am, near the stele, reports Ouest-France.
The Côtes-d'Armor gendarmerie had discovered, Wednesday, swastikas tagged on the stele, tags which were immediately cleaned.
The discovery had aroused anger in the political and associative camp.
“#Simone Veil is a French and global figure in women's rights, Europe and the fight against anti-Semitism.
To degrade its stele is to degrade France!
These abject acts must not go unpunished, ”reacted the Minister Delegate to the Ministry of the Interior Marlène Schiappa on Twitter.
The Licra (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism) had also expressed “its deep disgust for these cowardly and abject facts”.
“Everything must be done so that their perpetrators are identified, tried and sentenced,” the association asked on Twitter.