The image caused a real uproar on the social network Twitter. Licra announced to AFP on Sunday its intention to file a complaint about an anti-Semitic sign carried the day before in Metz by a protester against the health pass. “We are going to file a complaint,” the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism told AFP, which considers that “we are very clearly in the presence of a sign of alleged anti-Semitism”. We “have to be intractable,” the Licra underlined.
At the same time, the Moselle prefecture announced in a press release the opening of an investigation by the Metz prosecutor’s office. The prefect Laurent Touvet “strongly condemns this message”, declared the prefecture. Asked by AFP, he said that it was an investigation of flagrance entrusted to the Metz police station.
Many reactions
“Appalling and revolting”, denounced on Twitter Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces, in charge of Memory and Veterans. “Anti-Semitism killed yesterday and still kills today. Anti-Semitism is not an opinion. It is an offense, which must be systematically condemned, ”added the Minister for Equality, Elisabeth Moreno.
The general delegate of En Marche! Stanislas Guérini, still on Twitter, also blasted “open-face anti-Semitism. Ignoble. Chilling ”, and deemed him“ liable to prosecution ”. The Israeli Embassy in France said it was “appalled at such an expression of the most abject anti-Semitic hatred”.
Which ? When the underlying slogans replace the yellow stars of the first weeks of the protests #antivax.
Hunt the natural, it comes back at a gallop. pic.twitter.com/SENc8ctJgy– Noemie Madar (@Noemiemad) August 8, 2021
Reactions hailed by Licra, which also asks the organizers of demonstrations against the health pass to “dissociate themselves from this kind of talk”. A photo posted on social media shows a young woman holding up a sign with the names of several politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, some of whom are Jews, around the slogan “But who? “.
A slogan from an interview
This slogan appeared after of an interview in June on the CNEWS channel of a retired general, Daniel Delawarde, signatory of a column evoking “the disintegration” of France, published by Current values. To the question “who controls the media pack?” “And after several reminders, he replied” the community that you know well “, before being cut by the presenter, Jean-Marc Morandini.
For the Licra, this slogan is “another way of saying that we don’t like Jews”. The Paris prosecutor’s office had opened shortly after the interview with General Delawarde an investigation for “public defamation”And “incitement to hatred and violence on the grounds of origin or belonging to an ethnic group, nation, race or religion”. The demonstration in Metz gathered 3,800 people on Saturday, according to the police.