This is the third time that it has been degraded in a week.

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, it had already been soiled with excrement and mustard, according to

Ouest-France

.

This Wednesday, the stele erected in honor of Simone Veil in Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor) was covered with swastikas, we learned from the gendarmerie.

“This morning, we discovered that the stele of Mrs. Simone Veil was covered with tags with swastikas,” reports the Côtes-d'Armor gendarmerie, confirming information from local media.

"We proceeded to the findings and the usual investigations," said the gendarmerie.

At midday, "the stele was covered and completely cleaned", indicated the town hall of Perros-Guirec.

"It is very clean," said the town.

The investigation was entrusted to the research brigade of Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor).

"To degrade your stele is to degrade France"

Installed on the forecourt of the Town Hall, renamed “Parvis Simone-Veil”, this granite stele was inaugurated in November 2017, according to local media.

“Simone Veil is a French and global figure in women's rights, in Europe and in the fight against anti-Semitism.

To degrade its stele is to degrade France!

These abject acts must not go unpunished, ”reacted the Minister Delegate to the Ministry of the Interior Marlène Schiappa on Twitter.

Quoted by

Ouest-France

, Mayor Erven Léon regretted an “inadmissible” and “incomprehensible” act.

The Licra (International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism) also expressed "its deep disgust for these cowardly and despicable facts".

“Everything must be done so that their perpetrators are identified, tried and sentenced,” asked the association on Twitter.

Simone Veil (1927-2017), who was deported to Auschwitz, notably left her name in 1975 to the law legalizing voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion).

She was also President of the European Parliament (1979-1982).

Also an academic, she was president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (2001-2007).

It entered the Pantheon in 2018.

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