The premises of Asti (Association for the support of all immigrants) were also the target of tags on Tuesday in Pessac.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
A new salvo of degradations signed “Identity direct actionwas conducted in the Bordeaux conurbation on Tuesday, on the walls of a permanence and an associative local. MoDem deputy Frédéric Zgainski shared images of his premises in Pessac (Gironde) on Twitter, covered with tags, including the inscriptions “Young people at work, boomers in thalassotherapy” and “Retirement before arthritis“.
The elected official being in Paris, it was his parliamentary collaborator who discovered the vandalized office on Tuesday morning. “This type of act has no place in a democracy.“, deplores the deputy to the Figaro. “Beyond the message, it is above all the act that I want to condemn, because if we begin to respond to the substance of the message, we begin to discuss with people who refuse democracy“. Frédéric Zgainski specifies that he has filed a complaint.
A vandalized pro-migrant association
Less than two kilometers away, the premises of Asti (Association for the support of all immigrants) were also damaged with the inscription “France to the French“, reveals the town hall of Pessac. The councilor of the town, Franck Raynal (Horizons), clarified that he was also going to file a complaint. For the city,this kind of tags stir up a little more hatred because they target two institutions at the service of living together“. They should be cleaned by the end of the day.
Other Asti premises in Bordeaux were also tagged last December. This time, the phrase “Let them go back to Africa“, in reference to the remarks of the deputy RN of Gironde, Grégoire de Fournas, had been marked with the bomb. Two weeks later, new inscriptions of the same ilk, signed “Identity direct action“, had been found on the Bordeaux premises of the associations SOS Racisme and Boulevard des potes.
“I also condemn the damage to ASTI Pessac and support the volunteers, beneficiaries and residents of the neighborhood“Said Frédéric Zgainski on his Twitter account. “We must protect our democracy from extremes. This is the very meaning of my political commitment to the center“, he writes.
“The consequence of extremist discourse”
Emphasizing the desire expressed by the National Rally (RN) to “look closely” the municipalities of Arcachon, Mérignac and Pessac, in particular to integrate the municipal councils, the deputy MoDem indirectly accuses the party to the flame of being responsible for these degradations, which would be the “consequence of extremist speeches“. Jimmy Bourlieux, departmental director of the National Rally, while condemning this attack on the tenure of the elected, “also condemns this allusion against the RN“.
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“Mr. Zgainski seems to forget that we have always condemned this kind of practice, including against our adversaries. Conversely, we have never heard Mr. Zgainski deplore the attacks against our premises or against our young manager beaten up by about thirty antifasin Bordeaux in july“, reacted the one who replaces the deputy RN Edwige Diaz recently. Finally, Jimmy Bourlieux adds that “the RN obviously has nothing to do with the actions of the Identity Direct Action group“. But for the chosen one of the Modem, “the difference between him and me is that no one claiming to be part of my current of thought will degrade his permanence“.
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