Damage to Simone Veil’s stele: two men indicted

Two men were indicted and placed under judicial supervision Thursday for degradation and aggravated public insults, as well as incitement to hatred after the degradation of a stele in tribute to Simone Veil in Perros-Guirec in the Côtes-d’Armor .

“A judicial investigation was opened (…) at the end of two police custody counts of aggravated degradation, aggravated public insults and incitement to hatred”, indicates in a press release the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Saint-Brieuc , Antoine Loussot.

The aggravating circumstance of the offenses against the two men “results from their racial character,” he said.

The two men are in their sixties, from Côtes-d’Armor, “without any conviction in their criminal record” or “link between them”, adds the prosecution.

On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin thanked the police officers in charge of the investigation. “Thank you to the investigators of the gendarmerie who arrested two individuals following the degradation of the stele of Simone Veil in Perros-Guirec”. “No tolerance with anti-Semitic hatred,” added the minister.

Installed on the forecourt of the town hall, renamed “Parvis Simone-Veil”, the granite stele was inaugurated in November 2017, according to local media. It had been the subject of several degradations during the month of August and had in particular been covered with swastika tags.

Simone Veil (1927-2017), who was deported to Auschwitz, notably left her name in 1975 to the law legalizing voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion). She was also President of the European Parliament (1979-1982). Also an academic, she was president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (2001-2007). It entered the Pantheon in 2018.

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