“I hope that our city will be spared from physical, material and symbolic violence, in particular that it be freed from unbearable speeches and acts, advocating hatred, discrimination, xenophobia” insisted the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet in preamble to the meeting of the municipal council on January 27.
Highlighting “repeated attacks and aggressions”, he indicated that he had written “to the Minister of the Interior and to the Minister of Justice so that the identified far-right groups which sow fear and disorder in our city ,…