A Manuel Bompard who plays with words. A guest of BFMTV, the coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI) refused to condemn a fresco depicting Emmanuel Macron made up as Adolf Hitler.
“In France we have a certain right to caricature,” defended the rebel deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône, while acknowledging the “obviousness”: “Emmanuel Macron is not Adolf Hitler.” Should we then delete this fresco? At this point, Manuel Bompard kicked into touch.
“I don’t know where it is, I don’t know what wall it’s on.”
“If ever… satirical painting”
The fresco, painted in Avignon in the Vaucluse, is the work of the artist Lekto. It represents the President of the Republic with the inscription “49.3”, forming a mustache similar to Hitler’s.
The sentence “NO THANKS” is written below, as well as the precision: “if ever… satirical painting”. The territory of Grand Avignon and the prefecture of Vaucluse ordered to erase the fresco as soon as possible. So far no complaint has been filed.
Lekto is a street artist used to the political cartoons that he often posts on his Instagram account. In June 2022, in the same place, he had made a graffiti that showed Emmanuel Macron depicted as Pinocchio on the stage of a theatre.
The President of the Republic, made up like a puppet, was moved by strings held by Jacques Attali, the writer and economist fame of being close to the Head of State. The latter had filed a complaint, judging the anti-Semitic fresco.
Source: BFM TV
