The sign of an "unhealthy climate" around Islam?
Abdallah Zekri, the president of the National Observatory for the fight against Islamophobia fears a “bidding up”, after degradations committed against the Muslim and Turkish community in several communes of the Doubs.
In Pontarlier, some crosses of Lorraine, drawn in red paint, were affixed on the walls of the Philippe-Grenier mosque and on those of the Association of Turks of the city, as well as the Association of Franco-French friendship. -Turque de Montlebon, about thirty kilometers to the north, we learned from the prosecutor's office on Sunday.
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"A provocation", according to Mr. Zekri, who "strongly condemns" these abuses.
The crosses of Lorraine are traditionally the symbol of Gaullism and the Resistance.
The prosecution who indicated that an "investigation" would be "carried out".
An “Islamophobic” act?
"We are very surprised that it is a cross of Lorraine (...) but (...) we are in full straight line towards the presidential election and the current hate speech (...) only reinforces the acts" anti Muslims, a added the president of the National Observatory against Islamophobia.
The Philippe-Grenier mosque in Pontarlier had already been damaged but "this is the first time that I have seen crosses of Lorraine", explained Boubaker Lamamra, its president.
He believes that the registrations were obviously made "in the night" from Saturday to Sunday.
The President of the Philippe-Grenier mosque is also said to be "astonished" by the "mode of operation" and the multiplicity of targets in the same sector, Haut-Doubs.
The use of the Lorraine cross, symbol of the Resistance, could mean "we are resisting Islam", he said, also seeing in these tags an "Islamophobic" act.