The mayor of Ile-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) Mohamed Gnabaly has announced that he will file a complaint following the discovery on Tuesday of swastikas and a death threat tagged on the portal of his home.
“This morning, I was woken up by neighbors explaining to me that there were swastikas and the inscription” To death “on my portal. It happened in the night from Monday to Tuesday”, a declared the city councilor in his thirties at the head of this island municipality of nearly 8,000 inhabitants.
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The mayor will file a complaint
The tags painted in red have since been removed, said the mayor (without a label), announcing that he would go to the police station in the afternoon to lodge a complaint. “It is a question of preserving my person and my family but also of preserving the symbol” which represents the mayor, he underlined.
Reelected in 2020 for a second term, Mohamed Gnabaly said he did not know the authors of these tags, but blasted “a very deleterious campaign” which left “a lot of tension” in Ile-Saint-Denis, a city where “85 nationalities” coexist.
“The trivialization of violence against elected officials and also a kind of ambient discourse which is a little violent” can also promote this type of fact, he said, while indicating “remain calm”.
“Let us face up to hatred, racism and violence. To attack an elected representative of the people is to attack the entire French Republic”, the City reacted in a statement.
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