The joke didn’t make many people laugh. in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire). During the night of Thursday or Friday, one or more individuals stole the French flag and the city’s coat of arms which were flying on the town hall square and replaced them with flags Algerian and Palestinian. In a press release, Mayor LR Gilles Bourdouleix denounced “inadmissible” facts, accusing the authors of having “sullied the symbols of the Republic. » “Beyond the stupidity of such a gesture, I would like to remind you that we are in France, a country with values and a culture,” he continued.
According to The Western Maila report was made to the police who will now rely on video surveillance images to try to identify the perpetrator(s).