The street artist had represented the president as a puppet.
Appeared a fortnight ago on the wall of a parking lot in Avignon (Vaucluse), the fresco representing Emmanuel Macron manipulated by the economist and adviser to the President of the Republic, Jacques Attali, will be erased this Friday.
According to the Dauphiné Libéré, this is an “insistent request” from the prefect.
The anti-Semitic fresco in Avignon was covered in paint this evening by young people from the city.
Proud of them 💙❤️
It will be erased in the rules of art this Friday by a company mandated by Grand Avignon.
Thank you to everyone who got involved.
#antisemitism pic.twitter.com/ad1QJLp3os
— Amine El-Khatmi (@Aminelkhatmi) June 23, 2022
The monumental work was painted by Lekto, an artist known for his polemical positions.
This time, it is decried, Internet users denouncing an anti-Semitic fresco.
The organization American Jewish Committee had even questioned the mayor of Avignon, Cécile Helle, on this subject on Twitter.
But the city and the agglomeration community had invoked “freedom of expression.
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“Everyone can interpret the image as they want since there is no word on this wall”, added the town hall, quoted by France Bleu.
A surfer had denounced a "good big anti-Semitic conspiratorial graf", while another spoke of a "nauseating message which must be erased as soon as possible".
But this Friday, the authorities finally made a decision: the work will be withdrawn on “Insistent request” from the prefect.
The author of the drawing, known as "Lekto" on Instagram, titled his work "The puppeteer", in a publication on the platform, qualifying Jacques Attali from Gepetto and Emmanuel Macron from Pinocchio.
