At the very beginning of the afternoon, swastikas were spray-painted on Plexiglas display panels, the copper plate, the mailbox, the intercom and on the ground in front of the gate of the Consulate of Russia, at the corner of Place Sébastien-Brant and Allée de la Robertsau in the Neustadt district of Strasbourg.
The deputy departmental director of public security for Bas-Rhin, Dominique Rodriguez, who was passing in front of the building, made contact to intercept the individual suspected of being the author of the tags. The man, dressed in fatigues pants and an anorak, did not let it go. He was subdued with the help of reinforcements who arrived quickly on the scene.
Slightly injured in the head during the intervention, Dominique Rodriguez was examined on the spot by the firefighters before being transported to the hospital for check-ups.
These Nazi symbols were drawn on the diplomatic building hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine. The alleged author of the tags, 52 years old, who would not be of Ukrainian nationality, was taken to the police station and placed in police custody in order to explain himself about this gesture. He was slightly alcoholic at the time.
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An “act of vandalism”, according to a representative of the consulate
Around 2 p.m., technical and scientific police officers arrived on the scene to take readings and samples. Bombs of red paint were notably seized. The departmental director of public security, Laurent Tarasco, also visited the site.
In the middle of the afternoon, agents from a cleaning company intervened to erase the tags.
A representative of the Russian consulate, who came out to speak with the police, indicated that the consulate would not comment on this “act of vandalism”. The body responsible for protecting the Russian community in Alsace has indicated its intention to file a complaint.
We do not distribute photos of these tags so as not to give additional echo to this symbol of Nazism.
“The swastika tags discovered on the Consulate General of Russia are intolerable and deeply shocking”, reacted the mayor of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, this Friday in a press release.
“No circumstances, ever, can justify the irruption in the public space of such Nazi symbols”, insists the elected condemning “with firmness these acts of vandalism and incitement to hatred”.
“In the context of the Russian army’s attack on Ukraine, while voices from all over the world are rising to call for an end to the fight to resume the path of diplomacy and law, this violence is all the more more unbearable”, continues Jeanne Barseghian
The mayor of Strasbourg also expressed her support for the injured police officer in the context of this “altercation”.
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