The Franco-Gabonese MP, Danièle Obono, was caricatured as a slave last August by the magazine Valeurs Actuelles. The municipality of Stains decided to support it by dedicating a fresco to it.
During the summer season, the magazine Current values published "summer politics-fictions" in which political figures were staged at different times in history. The Franco-Gabonese deputy, Danièle Obono, found herself caricatured as a slave. "Obono the African, where the rebellious MP experiences the responsibility of Africans in the horrors of slavery", could one read in the magazine. The principal concerned, all the political class as well as the Net surfers were shocked by this shameful drawing. Current values then offered an unconvincing apology. An investigation was thus opened to "racist insults" against the weekly.
Recently, the town of Stains en Seine-Saint-Denis wanted to show its support for the member of France Insoumise. We thus find a fresco in his effigy where Danièle Obono appears with raised fist and wearing a Phrygian cap, a revolutionary symbol. "The Republic is us too", can we read next to the drawing. "Freedom. Equality. Fraternity. An honor and a pride. Thank you @AzzedineTAIBI and the collective ART.", wrote the deputy in the caption of a photo where she poses in front of the fresco.
As Le Parisien explains, this famous fresco is an initiative of the Communist mayor, Azzedine Taïbi, who himself was the victim of racist insults.
The town of Stains had already stood out with another fresco this summer, in tribute to Georges Floyd and Adama Traoré, whose faces were surmounted by the inscription "against racism and police violence". American George Floyd died after being pinned to the ground on his stomach and immobilized by the pressure of a police officer's knee on his neck. Faced with this tragedy, the entire planet has mobilized against racism and police violence by organizing huge demonstrations around the world. In France, Adama Traoré was killed on July 19, 2016 after being tackled and held down by three gendarmes. His death had taken on media coverage and shocked in France and abroad. However, the fresco in the commune of Stains was far from appealing to the Minister of the Interior and the police unions. The prefecture had asked the town hall to delete the term "police ". However, the city preferred to completely delete the design.