It was to be inaugurated on Saturday afternoon in Rennes in the presence of the mayor Nathalie Appéré.
But on the night of Friday to Saturday, the exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty was downgraded.
Of the fifteen panels hung on the exterior wall of the former Jacques Cartier prison, ten were tagged with messages hostile to the police or the prison system.
Flyers from l'Envolée, a collective that fights against prisons, have also been pasted on certain panels.
The city and the Champs de Justice association, at the origin of the exhibition, should file a complaint.
The panels will be reassembled in another location, although it is not yet clear where and when the exhibition will be held.
The old prison bought by the metropolis
"These degradations show us even more the need and the importance of a site of mediation between justice and society", indicates the president of the association Christian Gentilleau, contacted by
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During September, Rennes Métropole bought from the State the old remand center, empty since 2010 and the transfer of detainees to Rennes-Vezin.
The penitentiary must be transformed into a vast cultural place.
The Champs de Justice association has been fighting for several years so that the old prison becomes a large museum of justice retracing in particular the major trials.
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