Municipal police officer suspended for posting posters

The poster, which depicts a young blond boy with blue eyes, had created controversy. It bears the signature of the Parti de la France, a small group that presented only one candidate in the 5th constituency of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

A trainee municipal police officer from Golbey (Vosges) has been suspended for four months after being seen in images putting up a poster “Let’s give white children a future” in Lorraine, the mayor of the town told AFP on Friday July 5.

Roger Alémani made this decision on June 28, he said, confirming information from the daily newspaper. Vosges Morning. “The law allows us” such a precautionary suspension for a period of four months “pending feedback from the prefecture and the public prosecutor”he explained.

An investigation into “public incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence based on origin or membership or non-membership of a specific ethnic group, nation, race or religion” is underway, the official recalled.

The poster, which depicts a young blond boy with blue eyes, bears the signature of the Party of France, a small group which presented only one candidate in the legislative elections, in the 5th constituency of the neighboring department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

It was broadcast in particular in Neuves-Maisons, a town of 7,000 inhabitants in this constituency. Quoted by the local newspaper, the young trainee municipal police officer in his twenties said to himself “serene”. “The law is on my side, I don’t [l’ai] not infringed”did he declare.

The mayor of Neuves-Maisons, Pascal Schneider, filed a complaint, as did the LICRA and SOS Racisme. The legislative candidate running under the banner of the group, Pierre-Nicolas Nups, had declared to the newspaper The Republican East that he had “valid” the incriminated poster. He was eliminated in the first round of the legislative elections, with 10.06% of the vote.

In 2017, he was sentenced by the Nancy Criminal Court to a six-month suspended prison sentence and five years of ineligibility for inciting homophobic hatred.