2023-10-19 11:07:00
This Wednesday, residents of the Bruyères district in Louvain-la-Neuve were able to discover an unexpected tag at Place de l’Équerre. At the bottom of the stairs, on the ground leading to the small local business, local residents were able to discover a Palestinian flag topped with the words: “Support resistance Samidoun”.
Samidoun defines itself as a solidarity network for Palestinian prisoners and it recently made the news here during the pro-Palestinian demonstration in Saint-Gilles last weekend. For other observers, it is more of a group supporting Hamas. Samidoun also describes the new war between Hamas and Israel as a “resistance operation”.
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As for the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, mayor Julie Chantry (Ecolo) informs us that the tag “will be removed quickly”. The police have already come to check, warns a local resident. As with all tags, the municipality will apply the usual procedure and the department concerned will come and remove the registration. Contacted in turn, UCLouvain declared that it had not observed similar tags on its properties. In any case, the university considers all tags on its buildings as vandalism and applies “the same regime for everyone”, that is to say cleaning by the services.
Concerning the nature of the message and the group presumed to be behind it, neither the mayor nor UCLouvain wanted to comment on the subject, just referring to the nature of the act.
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