a fresco representing Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler is controversial, it will be erased “as soon as possible”

A new fresco by graffiti artist Lekto, known for having produced a fresco considered anti-Semitic in June 2022 in Avignon, will be erased “as soon as possible”announces the urban community of Greater Avignon to France Bleu Vaucluse on Monday April 3.

This new fresco, produced by the graffiti artist this Sunday April 2 on a building in a parking lot in the north of the city, represents the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron caricatured as Adolf Hitler, wearing, instead of the brush mustache, the inscription “49.3”, accompanied by the phrase “No thank you”. This fresco will be erased “at the request of the present of the department and the prefect”, says Grand Avignon. For his part, the graffiti artist Lekto indicates at the bottom of his work that it is a “satirical work”.

A coat of paint to make the caricature of Macron as Hitler disappear in Avignonhttps://t.co/le1kODlaJa

— France Bleu Vaucluse (@bleuvaucluse) April 3, 2023

Another fresco by the same graffiti artist already incriminated

Graffiti artist Lekto will be tried in September for “provocation to discrimination, violence, hatred by an anti-Semitic remark”, because of another fresco, made in June 2022 in the same city. The incriminated fresco notably showed Jacques Attali as a puppeteer manipulating Emmanuel Macron, before being erased. Jacques Attali had filed a complaint in early July. Lekto’s work had provoked a lively controversy between those who saw in it an anti-Semitic symbolism and those who evoked artistic freedom.