Paris: Anti-Israeli Posters On JC Decaux Inserts Arouse Emotion
“Our teams, alerted by this act of vandalism, very quickly intervened”, reacted the company JC Decaux
A wild anti-Israeli poster campaign broke out on Friday afternoon on advertising inserts at various bus stops in Paris, belonging to the JC Decaux company. The poster, whose authors are anonymous, shows a photo of a young Palestinian man with bruises on his face, surrounded by two violent policemen. Under the photo, an unequivocal message reads: “The torture of Palestinian children by the Israeli occupation”.
Many Internet users have denounced this “false communication campaign” in the heart of Paris on social networks.
This poster has produced a strong emotion within the Jewish community, and many Internet users have denounced on social networks this “false communication campaign” in the heart of Paris. JC Decaux told i24NEWS that its teams “immediately intervened on this site located on the Grands boulevards of Paris, but also throughout the district to identify any other possible malicious acts (…) We are filing a complaint so that such acts capable of being punished in an exemplary manner”.
It turns out that this same poster was plastered last year in the advertising inserts of JC Decaux in Lyon. Individuals had managed to open the inserts and slip in these posters printed in the same format as the advertisements normally installed in these panels, believing that it was a “regular” campaign.
The posters were then removed, while the mayor of the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, Pascal Blache, strongly condemned this pro-Palestinian disinformation campaign. “Wild displays of hateful, anti-Semitic propaganda on our territory are intolerable. I condemn this mode of action. This is indeed piracy. Neither the City nor JC Decaux are at the origin of these publications”, said the city councilor on social networks. The newspaper Lyon Mag had also reported the opening of an investigation by the police.