Institutional anti-racism has a new victory in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine).
Indeed, streets bearing the names of characters known to be anti-Semitic will be renamed.
Exit Charles Devos and the Marquis de Morès, and now place Simone Veil, Marie Curie and Lucie Aubrac, reports BFMTV.
This decision is the result of a citizen vote on the municipality's website in which the inhabitants of Garches took part.
The municipality had decided to separate from these characters because of their past.
The latter had been brought to light thanks to a documentary which detailed their lives and their commitments.
Residents voted
Charles Devos was formerly editor of La Libre Parole, an anti-Semitic newspaper launched by Édouard Drumont.
The Marquis de Morès was the founder with the same Drumont of the Anti-Semitic League of France, as France 3 explains.
In total, 400 inhabitants took part in the vote which resulted in the choice of Simone Veil in first position, followed by Marie Curie then by the resistant Lucie Aubrac.
These are the first streets in the town to be baptized with women's names.
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