The national police confirm that an investigation has been opened after numerous acts of violence were reported to them overnight from Friday to Saturday, in the working-class district of Saint-Michel in Bordeaux. Photos and videos, posted on social networks, are analyzed as part of these investigations, and witnesses are also heard. We see a group of about ten people attack passers-by and residents, and one of them imitates the cries of a monkey.
In a press release sent Sunday evening, the association SOS Racism Gironde condemns what it describes as “ratonnade”, and calls into question the far-right group “Bordeaux Nationaliste”. “According to our information, several residents, passers-by and victims testified that they heard the attackers chanting songs, racist slogans and the words “Bordeaux Nationaliste”, which tends to confirm a priori that the perpetrators belong to this small group” .
“A few days before, the Pride March suffered homophobic insults with a banner denouncing “LGBT madness”, and attacks on participants which could be the work of other far-right groups”, advances for its part the league human rights in a press release.