Police illustration in Lyon.
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E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes
After the incidents that took place last week between Armenians and Turks in connection with the current conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, tags were discovered on Armenian buildings in Décines, near Lyon.
Pro-Turkish insults and inscriptions were made with a fluorescent bomb on the night of Saturday to Sunday on the Armenian Genocide Memorial and the walls of the Armenian Culture Museum.
The insults were written on the buildings in fluorescent yellow.
A police investigation was opened in Décines, near Lyon, after a series of tags found on November 1 on the Armenian genocide memorial and the facades of the museum of Armenian culture in the town.
These pro-Turkish insults and inscriptions were tagged in the night from Saturday to Sunday, denounced the Committee for the Defense of the Armenian Cause, confirming information from
Progress.
The two buildings separated by just a few meters were tagged with the inscriptions "RTE" - an acronym for the initials of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - "Gray Wolves", a Turkish ultranationalist movement, and "Fuck Armenia".
The prefect P.MAILHOS strongly condemns the degradations committed last night against the CNMA and the Armenian genocide memorial of #Decines.
He gives his full support to the Armenian community.
Everything will be done to find the authors of these profanations.
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- Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region (@prefetrhone) November 1, 2020
“These unbearable desecration […] are part of a series of events aimed at terrorizing and intimidating French citizens of Armenian origin,” the CDCA said in a statement.
And to quote a "first descent" of the Gray Wolves in Décines on July 24th.
Then, on October 28, a new descent, which followed a brawl on the A7 motorway during a demonstration by Armenians in defense of Nagorno Karabakh, which left 4 wounded.
We strongly condemn the desecration of the #GenocideArménien Memorial and the @_CNMA_ of # Décines.
These new testimonies of hatred against the # Armenians are part of the continuity of the denial of the # Armenian genocide and the Turkish-Azeri war against the people of # Artsakh
- Embassy of Armenia (@armembfrance) November 1, 2020
“Long-term protection” demanded by the mayor of Décines
The CDCA "denounces the very serious passivity of the state" and recalls its request for the dissolution of the Gray Wolves, already formulated last week during previous incidents in the metropolis in connection with the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Laurence Fautra, LR mayor of Décines, also renewed Sunday with the prefect of the Rhône his request for "lasting and physical protection" of the district of Little Armenia.
"We hope for a communication of support from the Turkish consul in Lyon and that he advocates a message of peace," added Laurence Fautra.
“We can't go on like this!
We are not a war zone but a mosaic of cultures that live in peace ”.
In a tweet published in the middle of the morning, the prefect of the Rhône Pascal Mailhos “strongly condemned the degradations committed that night”.
"Everything will be done to find the perpetrators of these profanations," he assured.
A flagship city of the diaspora, Décines-Charpieu, which has 30,000 inhabitants, is home to two Armenian churches, an Armenian radio station, and a house of culture.
The 1915 Armenian Genocide Memorial is the first to be erected in Europe in 1972.
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