Produced by a collective of local artists, this mural depicts, on a blue background with clouds, the faces coast to coast George Floyd and Adama Traoré.
A mural to Stains inaugurated recently in the presence of the mayor “against racism and police violence,” representing the faces of Adama Traoré and George Floyd, has attracted the wrath of the police union, which calls for a protest in front this Monday.
Performed by a collective of local artists, it represents, on a blue background with clouds, the faces coast to coast to George Floyd, who died during his arrest in the United States and Adama Traoré, young black man death in July 2016 after his arrest by the gendarmes in Beaumont-sur-Oise in the Val-d’oise. A sentence overlooks : “Against racism and police violence.”
This is an “ultimate provocation by an elected official of the Republic which criticizes the police,” said the trade union Alliance 93 on the social networks, who called in a first time to a “mobilization” in front of the fresco, on Monday afternoon, asking that the sentence be repainted”. in But on Monday morning, the union finally gave up on this meeting in front of the fresco. An action will take place finally in Bobigny, france, announced the union Alliance. The gathering will take place in 16 hours “on the square in front of the préfecture” of the Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny, france, said the trade union Alliance 93.
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A response on the part of the committee Adama
This call resulted in a response from the committee Adama, who was also called to attend the scene. “Clear my brother, to cover his face, is to deny its existence. (…) It is desecrating our dead”, was insurgent on Sunday, Assa Traoré in an online video.
At the inauguration of the mural last Thursday, Assa Traoré was present alongside the mayor (PCF), Azzédine Taïbi, of this popular town of Seine-Saint-Denis. “This call to the gathering [union Alliance] is a threat to the public order that I can tolerate,” responded Sunday Azzédine Taïbi, expressing his “concerns about the risk of flooding”.
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“To Stains, we have always denounced violence, whatever they are. (…) If we do not cease to denounce the behaviour unacceptable to some police officers who have overstepped their rights”, he said in a press release. “This mural is an artistic expression and a pacifist, to support and pay tribute to all the victims of injustice”, he still believed.
