“After Charles Pasqua, the City of Nice honors the repeat offender Jacques Médecin, who was sentenced to prison four times.”
“When will we stop glorifying clientelism and corruption in Nice?”
“We demand that no street name or any form of recognition or honor be given in Nice to anyone convicted of acts related to corruption, a scourge that plagues our society, particularly in the Côte d’Azur.”
“Furthermore, Jacques Médecin never hid his extreme and racist positions. In June 1987, he publicly declared, ‘Today, 99% of the National Front’s theses are mine.’ Worse, he stated in March 1986: ‘France is going to be invaded by all the monkeys who have nothing better to do than come live with us.’ Additionally, he twinned the city of Nice with Cape Town, South Africa, in support of the apartheid policy carried out there. We refuse to allow the City of Nice to honor those who have promoted far-right, racist, and apartheid ideologies.”
“Naming a street after Jacques Médecin is thus honoring both corruption and racism.”
“More broadly, the time has come for a true ‘right to inventory’ of Médecinism in Nice and its consequences.”
“‘Nice/Cape Town Twinning,’ a work by Ernest Pignon Ernest to denounce the twinning of Nice with Cape Town, ‘the capital of institutionalized racism.’”
David Nakache, president of the Tous Citoyens association
