A fresco in Stains inaugurated recently in the presence of the mayor "against racism and police violence", representing the faces of Adama Traore and George Floyd, has angered a police union, which calls to demonstrate before Monday. Made by a collective of local artists, it represents, on a blue background decorated with clouds, the faces side by side of George Floyd, died during his arrest in the United States and of Adama Traoré, young black man who died in July 2016 after his arrest by the gendarmes at Beaumont-sur-Oise, in the Val-d'Oise. One sentence overlooks them: "Against racism and police violence."
INAUGURATION OF THE FRESCO ON RACISM AND POLICE VIOLENCE STAINS✊
Fresco in homage to Adama Traoré and George Floyd produced by the Stanois artists of the “Collectif Art”.
On the Place du Colonel Fabien, the mayor Azzédine Taïbi and Assa Traoré
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It is a "final provocation by an elected representative of the Republic who stigmatizes the police", denounced the union Alliance 93 on social networks, which calls for a "mobilization" in front of the fresco, Monday afternoon and asks "let the sentence be repainted". This call prompted a response from the Adama committee, which also called to visit the scene. "To erase my brother, to cover his face, is to deny his existence. (...) It is to desecrate our dead," rebelled Assa Traore on Sunday in an online video.
An artistic and pacifist expression
During the inauguration of the fresco last Thursday, Assa Traoré was present alongside the mayor (PCF), Azzédine Taïbi, of this popular city of Seine-Saint-Denis. "This call for assembly (from the Alliance union, editor's note ) is a threat to public order that I cannot tolerate," Azzédine Taïbi reacted on Sunday, expressing his "concerns about the risks of overflow".
"In Stains, we have always denounced violence of whatever kind. (...) However, we will not stop denouncing the unacceptable behavior of certain police officers who exceed their rights," he said in a statement. . "This fresco is an artistic and pacifist expression, in support and tribute to all the victims of injustice," he said.