France: Far-right students throw white paint at Victor Hugo statue because it was ‘too dark’

Two far-right students in France who whitewashed a Hugo statue because they found it too dark have been sentenced to 140 hours of community service.

A French court, on the occasion of the case of two French students, aged 20 and 22, who painted the statue of Victor Hugo with white paint, fined them 140 hours of compulsory work in services and activities of public interest. nature.

They threw paint at Hugo’s statue to get it
“Beautiful white, French color”

The Taliban, of far-right political beliefs, believed the statue – the work of a Senegalese sculptor – was too dark and had its face painted in white paint, says APE-MPE. Then they announced on the Internet that “on the initiative of the local nationalists, the statue of Hugo is now painted in beautiful French white”.

Their conviction relates to catastrophes caused with racist aims for the common good. In addition to community service, the two young men will have to cover the costs of restoring the statue. If they do not serve their sentences, they face three years in prison.

The lawyer of one of the convicts said that he is convinced that the court took into account their young age and that their criminal record is clean, while the municipality of Benzachon, where the statue is located, and representatives of anti-racism organizations considered the light of the sentence and he hoped that he would at least speak with the two students.