No one knows for now who is responsible for the posters. Drawn on a parking lot in the city, it had been erased immediately, at the request of the Avignon city administration. The posters reproduce a mural by Lekto, a local graffiti artist, which had already caused controversy in April. The poster includes a quote from Gandhi on the "sacred duty" of "civil disobedience" when the state becomes "lawless or corrupt."Ī dozen of these posters, where the caricature of Macron is framed by the words "No thank you" and the hashtag #agirousubir ("Act or suffer"), were pasted on Avignon billboards, before being removed during the day on Thursday by municipal services. Local and national elected French officials are unanimously condemning the fly posting on the night of May 17 to 18 of caricatures depicting President Emmanuel Macron with greying temples and a "49.3" as a mustache, in a transparent allusion to Adolf Hitler and a reference to Article 49.3 in the French Constitution, which the Macron administration used to force through the pension reform without a vote in the Assemblée Nationale. CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFPįor Avignon's mayor Cécile Helle (Parti Socialiste, PS), these were "unacceptable actions." They were a "conflation with the darkest hours of our history," said the prefect of Vaucluse, Violaine Demaret, and should be subject to "absolute condemnation," said Renaud Muselier (Renaissance, President Macron's party), president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region. Subscribers only The original mural by graffiti artist Lekto, Avignon, April 3, 2023. A flyposting campaign featuring Macron as Hitler ignites controversy in AvignonĪbout 30 posters reproducing the anti-Macron mural of a local graffiti artist, erased a few weeks ago, were posted in the Southeastern French city, during the night of May 17.īy Samuel Laurent Published on May 20, 2023, at 4:37 pm (Paris), updated on May 20, 2023, at 5:55 pm
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