The images are freezing: children’s books delivered to the flames on a beach on the Morbihan coast. Lorient far -right activists have engaged in an autodafé which they boasted online, noted Libération. They broadcast on Wednesday 25 June on social networks a video editing of their package, accompanied by Nazi references and threatening sentences.
According to their publication, these works of sex education and intended for Queers were stolen from the municipal media library Elsa-Triolet de Lanester, a commune bordering Lorient (Morbihan). Local environmental deputy Damien Girard announced to Libération His intention to seize the public prosecutor.
On the images, we can see the authors of facts film the shelves of the library and seize a few books. The following scene shows these works to be torn and thrown into a terracotta pot, visibly by the sea. They are finally covered with flammable liquid before a militant in white laces paraboots characteristic of nationalist skinheads puts fire. There followed a succession of images of the great autodafés of books led by the Nazis in 1933 against the works of Jewish, Marxist or Pacifist authors. Then an almost epileptic cascade of “black suns”, a symbol of Nazi mysticism, and Celtic cross, a sign of rallying of French neofascists.
“We will burn your books to
