About 200 people took part in an anti-concert demonstration last week against the backdrop of a far-right rally at Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole town hall in Yvelines, near Paris.
About 200 people took part in an anti-concert demonstration last week against the backdrop of a far-right rally at Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole town hall in Yvelines, near Paris.
The demonstrators carried a banner reading “Nazis out of our cities” as they marched to the town hall named after Simone Veil, a former French justice minister who survived the Holocaust during World War Two.
Pictures of the ceremony, published by local media, showed the majority of the attendees wearing face masks, carrying black flags and performing the Nazi salute.
Samuel Torero, one of the marchers, said: “This ceremony is an insult to the memory of Simon Vale. We are here to say that the people will not let this pass unnoticed.”
The municipality said that the concert organizers had booked the building on the sixth of May to celebrate a “birthday”, before they held the concert, which was performed by a right-wing rock band.
The municipality confirmed to AFP that it had sent a report of what happened to the Versailles prosecutor.
