In Nantes, LGBTphobic tags discovered on a city street

In the middle of Pride month, homophobic slurs covered part of rue Joffre in Nantes. Sunday June 25 a tag ” death by LGBT it was discovered on the asphalt, reports France Blue Loire Ocean. The tag was signed with a lily, the emblem of nationalist and far-right groups. The rainbow flag, painted by the traders, was covered with an insult: “pedophiles”.

” We strongly condemn these heinous and violent acts which have multiplied in recent months. »the deputy mayor of Nantes on equality reacted to France Bleu, Mahaut Bertu. The City intends to file a complaint. After France 3local LBGTQI+ activists said they would restore the rainbow fresco starting this Monday evening, June 26th.

Read also: LGBTphobic violence is in “ worrying increase “, according to SOS Homophobia

A worsening climate for LGBTQI+ people

Cordaro Violaan activist, testified in the media about a series of attacks against the LGBTQI+ community of Nantes over several months: “They put glue in the locks of our premises, tags on the windows. There were also many sticker collages around town and on the windows of family planners, damaged electrical panels in primary schools to prevent a show called ‘girl or boy’ from taking place, half of the flags installed rainbows were torn off».she said.

A climate that is deteriorating everywhere in France. Last May, the LGBT center in Tours was the victim of an attack with an explosive device launched inside its premises.

Aggressions in “worrying rise” and plan to combat violence

According to a report by SOS Homophobia released on May 16, physical, homophobic, lesbophobic, transphobic and biphobic attacks against LGBTQI+ people are on the rise. “worrisome increase”.

The government plans to introduce before summer » a plan to better combat this violence.

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