Graffiti calling for murder of police officers in Lons-le-Saunier: prefect refers matter to justice
Graffiti calling for the murder of police officers was discovered during an antifascist demonstration in the Jura. The prefect has referred the matter to the prosecutor.
Anti-police inscriptions at antifascist forum in the Jura
Inscriptions calling for the "murder of police officers" were found on urban furniture in Lons-le-Saunier during a demonstration organised by the antifascist collective AFA 39, reports sudouest.fr. The incidents occurred on Sunday 6 September, on the sidelines of an antifascist forum bringing together lectures, roundtable discussions and concerts from Friday to Sunday.
The prefect of the Jura Pierre-Édouard Colliex announced that he had referred the prosecutor of the Republic in Lons-le-Saunier to the matter after discovering these acts of vandalism. "Abominable inscriptions calling for the murder of police officers were committed on urban furniture," he wrote on social media X and Facebook.
The prefect expressed his "total support for police officers and gendarmes" and stated that "everything will be done to ensure that the perpetrators of these criminal acts are quickly identified, apprehended and brought before the courts to answer for their actions".
Source: Google News FR — Crime (fr)