The mayor of Rouen takes legal action after the announcement of an evening entitled “Foreigners outside” in an “identity bar”

An evening titled in German “Auslander Raus” (“strangers outside”, in French) was announced in Rouen (Seine-Maritine). The PS mayor of the city, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, said, Friday June 21, take legal action to cancel this event which was to be held on Friday June 28, in a “right-wing identity bar” called Le Mora. “I have contacted the Prosecutor, the Prefect and will take my responsibilities”wrote the first delegate secretary of the Socialist Party.

According to Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the title of this evening comes from article 1 of law 90-615 of July 13, 1990 which indicates that “any discrimination based on belonging or not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation , a race or a religion is prohibited.

“Racism and xenophobia are the hallmark of the far right. They have no place in the Republic”judges the chosen one. “In France, racism is not an opinion, but an offense”he concludes in his letter addressed to the public prosecutor of Rouen.