A “giant mannequin” with the image of a CRS burned in Strasbourg during the demonstration of November 5, the prefect will take legal action

The prefect of Bas-Rhin announced Thursday, November 5 that he was going to take legal action after a “giant mannequin” bearing the image of a CRS was burned in public during the demonstration in Strasbourg. The representative of the State, Amaury de Saint-Quentin, “condemns with the greatest firmness” this act. “As requested by the Minister of the Interior”, the prefect “will take legal action through a report under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure”, he added.

In a video published on social networks, we see the large cardboard mannequin, bearing the words "CRS SS" on its chest, collapsing into the flames to the cheers of the crowd, some demonstrators shouting "ACAB" for "All Cops Are Bastards" ("All cops are bastards" in French). "Anti-cop hatred no longer has any limits", reacted on the social network staging of hatred and violence against those who wear the uniform". A local leader of the LR party in Bas-Rhin, Stéphane Bourhis, was also outraged in a press release at a "symbolic call to violence".

If criticism of a “doctrine of maintaining order” is legitimate in a democracy, a “red line” has been crossed according to him with this “burning that does not speak its name”.

Machine-translated from French