The fresco had angered a police union. Two hundred police then gathered on Monday to denounce the work inaugurated in Stains and produced by a collective of local artists, representing the faces side by side of George Floyd, died during his arrest in the United States and Adama Traoré, young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest by the gendarmes in Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise). One sentence overlooks everything: “Against racism and police violence. "
But this Monday, 150 activists from the Adama Traore committee also gathered, to defend this work on the contrary.
A delegation received by the prefect
In Bobigny, about 200 police gathered in front of the prefecture of the department, noted an AFP journalist, and a delegation was received by the prefect. "He assured us that he was going to seize (the mayor of Stains) in writing and put him on notice to erase the word" police "so that no amalgam is made between racism, violence and police", declared to the come out of the interview Ivan Assioma, of the Alliance union, at the origin of the rally. The prefect "renewed his total confidence in the police of the department," added the union member. Contacted by AFP, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis did not wish to speak "in view of the electoral reserve period".
At the same time in Stains, some 150 people gathered in front of the controversial fresco at the call of the Adama Traoré Committee, according to a police source. "If this mural disappears, if a letter disappears, the only responsible will be the Alliance police union," said Assa Traore, Adama's sister, on videos relayed on social networks.
The communist mayor of Stains, Azzédine Taïbi, was present during the inauguration of the fresco. "It is an artistic and pacifist expression, in support and tribute to all the victims of injustice," he said, saying that it was necessary to "denounce the unacceptable behavior of certain police officers who exceed their rights. "
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