Racist and anti-Semitic tags discovered on the construction site of a mosque in Montauban

Racist inscriptions as well as drawings of swastikas were found on Tuesday June 18 on the walls of a mosque under construction in Montauban, in Tarn-et-Garonne. The construction workers discovered these drawings at the entrance to the building under construction, as well as messages like “dirty buggers” And “go home”, Mohamed Hajji, president of the Muslim Association of Montauban, told AFP. The organization did not file a complaint, but reported the facts to the police.

The images of the tags were relayed on the social network “the extreme right is not yet in power and its thugs already think they have everything they can”. Brigitte Barèges, Les Républicains mayor of the city and candidate for the legislative elections with the support of Eric Ciotti and the National Rally (without a candidate in this constituency), declared on X that she condemned “with the greatest firmness these intolerable inscriptions”.

“The tags were deleted by the town hall services”, specified Brigitte Barèges. She held “to reassure the Muslim community of [son] total disagreement with these events”. France Bleu recalls that the site had already been the target of damage in August 2022, when two pig’s heads were left at the entrance to the site.