REPORTAGE
"Everything will be done" to find the authors of the tags in Oradour-sur-Glane, said Emmanuel Macron who spoke, like many, to condemn the negationist tags at the entrance to the memory center of this martyr village. On June 10, 1944, the SS gathered the men in the village barns, shot them and then gathered women and children in the church before setting it on fire. A total of 642 people died that day. In Oradour-sur-Glane, in Haute-Vienne, the revisionist messages discovered on Friday morning shocked the population.
"It's really horrible and it's quite despicable"
"You have, instead of 'Martyr', the term 'liar', you also have 'when will the truth be' and the name of a revisionist. There is no ambiguity." After the discovery of negationist tags painted in white on the forecourt of the memory center, Mayor Philippe Lacroix is disgusted.
Discovered by a visitor early Friday morning, the inscriptions are now covered by a tarpaulin. "It's still deeply shocking for the 642 martyrs. We think of them, their families, the descendants. We think of our last survivor, who is one of our last witnesses. It's really horrible and it is is quite despicable, "he said at the microphone of Europe 1.
"We will continue our work to defend the duty to remember"
The Élysée condemned this act. And the Minister of Transport and former deputy of the district, Jean-baptiste Djebbari, went to the site on Saturday. These marks of support move Fabrice Escure, president of the memory center, who lodged a complaint on Saturday morning.
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"We want this investigation to be successful," he explains. "The perpetrators must absolutely be denounced. We cannot condone that, we cannot accept to see that," he adds. “Today, we really have feelings of anger but what is certain is that we will continue our work to defend the duty of remembrance.” For the cleaning of the tags, we will have to wait until the beginning of the week because it there is one difficulty: if the paint is removed too quickly, there is a risk of damaging the structure of the center. "