Xenophobic Graffiti Targets Socialist Candidate’s Campaign Posters in French Regional Election

"Go back to Morocco," "She has corrupted the children"... These are some of the xenophobic tags written on the campaign posters of the Socialist candidate for the regional elections in Bron, in the Essarts neighborhood.

"The Bron section of the Socialist Party strongly condemns the hateful, xenophobic and conspiratorial remarks written on the election posters," the party said in a statement, assuring that a complaint will be filed. "For many weeks, the election posters and urban furniture have been regularly degraded and insults mentioned. An additional step has been taken with the xenophobic and hateful remarks written on May 25," the statement said.

"The preservation of republican and democratic values requires a common will of all public authorities to defend the universalism that forms the basis of our republican pact," adds the statement from the local PS section.

The mayor of Bron also "strongly condemned" these tags found on Vallaud-Belkacem’s posters. "In Bron, there is and will never be any place for xenophobia, anti-Semitism or any other form of hatred," he said in a Facebook post.