Overview
- Shortly during Saturday’s Fête des Lumières, messages such as “La police blesse et tue” and “Non à l’État policier” were projected onto the Musée des Beaux-Arts façade and widely shared online.
- The local branch of Les Soulèvements de la Terre said it carried out the action, framing it as opposition to the far right and what it calls a “police state.”
- Prefect Fabienne Buccio condemned the slogans as a message of hate and invoked Article 40 to trigger a judicial investigation, with no arrests publicly reported.
- Investigators are analyzing video to determine where the images were launched—potentially from rooftops or outside the secured perimeter—and whether there were accomplices.
- Officials highlighted a reinforced security posture for the festival with more than 500 national police and gendarmes, alongside municipal forces, as political figures and police unions issued strong denunciations.