Statue of Simone Veil vandalized in Vendée: Action française demands. Simone Veil is famous for having adopted in January 1975 the law decriminalizing abortion in France.
The town hall of La Roche-sur-Yon stressed that it had the damage cleaned up on Friday morning by municipal agents. The statue was vandalized with paint in 2019, less than a week after the inauguration of the square bearing her name in La Roche, in Vendee. The message of demand published on social networks establishes a direct link between this macabre scene and "the ceremony of the inclusion of abortion in the French Constitution"