The graffiti artist Letko is at the heart of a controversy. One of his works of street-art, painted on an electrical transformer in Avignon, and representing Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler, aroused many reactions. It will be quickly erased. "As soon as possible," said Monday, April 3, the agglomeration of Greater Avignon, owner of the building where this painting was made.
"At the request of Joël Guin, president of the urban community of Greater Avignon, and Violaine Démaret, prefect of Vaucluse, the services of Greater Avignon are mobilized to have the new fresco by the artist Letko removed as soon as possible", specified the agglomeration community in a press release.
This mural, painted on an electrical transformer at the northeast entrance to Avignon, along a departmental road, depicts the Head of State in a suit, graying hair and the numbers 49.3 (referring to the article of the Constitution used to pass the pension reform in the National Assembly, Editor's note) acting as a mustache for him.
The message "No, thank you" frames this portrait of Emmanuel Macron in large letters, while at the bottom left of the fresco, in a smaller size, is inscribed: "If ever... satyrical painting. »
This street-art work is signed by the graffiti artist Letko, whose previous mural painted in the same place at the end of June had already been erased, at the request of the Vaucluse prefecture. The economist Jacques Attali was represented there as a puppeteer manipulating an Emmanuel Macron-Pinocchio, which had aroused strong reactions on social networks where the anti-Semitic character of the fresco had been denounced.
According to La Provence, Letko's trial before the Avignon Criminal Court for "public insult due to origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion, but also public provocation to discrimination" will take place on September 14.
Contacted by AFP, the Avignon prosecutor's office was unable on Monday evening to confirm or deny the opening of legal proceedings concerning the fresco representing Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler.
