Swastikas and insults sprayed on a school in Lille, the city files a complaint

A swastika and offensive remarks were found spray-painted on the Quinet-Rollin school in Lille on Thursday May 9. The town hall filed a complaint and erased the entries, France Bleu Nord learned on Friday. The swastika had been drawn in black paint on the door of the school. This is the second time in a month that this type of registration has been observed in the Wazemmes district of Lille, recalls France Bleu Nord.

The town hall indicates that it has filed a complaint and condemned “these despicable acts”. Tags “were immediately deleted by the City services after having been photographed to be used in filing a complaint”she specifies. “We condemn these despicable actsrepeats Charlotte Brun on the social network X, deputy in charge of Education and vice-president of the European Metropolis of Lille. As with any offensive, racist or anti-Semitic tag, a complaint was filed and they were immediately deleted by the City services.”

Other tags have been spotted. “We saw similar tags in Wazemmes a few weeks ago”, specifies the town hall. The LFI deputy for the 1st district of the North, Adrien Quatennens, mentions on X other places targeted in the past, such as “family planning, the Offensive premises, the Meura bookstore”. “This is where the normalization of the far right leads, the red carpet rolled out for it by an entire media ecosystem and the criminalization of left-wing activistsdenounces the elected official. This must stop urgently.”