It was designed “in collaboration with the victims and their families”. The stele erected in tribute to the victims of the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market in 2018 was vandalized on the night of Monday November 4 to Tuesday November 5, said the environmentalist mayor of the Alsatian capital, Jeanne Barseghian, in a press release. .
On the evening of December 11, 2018, after having pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group, a radicalized young man killed five people and injured 11 others in the crowded streets of the Alsatian city. He was shot dead by the police after two days of tracking.
“The stele on Place de la République, erected in memory of the many victims of the terrorist attack which plunged our city into mourning on December 11, 2018, was vandalized last night,” she wrote, adding that the town hall would file a complaint.
A “terrible act which marked the entire city”
The stele, imagined by one of the victims of the attack, is a transparent cube approximately one meter high on the walls of which run the silhouettes of the cathedral and the roofs of Strasbourg. At least one of the cube’s faces has been broken.
“Designed in collaboration with the victims and their families, it inscribes in the public space the memory of this appalling act which marked the entire city and beyond, and which recalls the memory of the five murdered people,” continues the press release. “Jeanne Barseghian, mayor of Strasbourg, and Jacques Witkowski, prefect of Bas-Rhin, condemn with the greatest firmness the unacceptable deterioration of this place of contemplation where we will gather again on December 11. »
I learned with anger that the stele erected at Place de la République, #Strasbourgin memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on #11December2018 was vandalized. This attack shook our city. We must honor and transmit the memory of the missing and injured. pic.twitter.com/wInZdTbawu
— Thierry Sother (@ThierrySother) November 5, 2024
Several Alsatian elected officials, such as the senator from Bas-Rhin Elsa Schalck (LR), the MEP Fabienne Keller (Ensemble) or the deputy Thierry Sother (PS) also reacted on of the Republic, in #Strasbourg, in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack of December 11, 2018 was vandalized. This attack shook our city. We must honor and transmit the memory of the missing and injured,” wrote Thierry Sother.
