Sunday, January 31, 2010

French village in row over Marshall Petain potrait...

The inhabitants of a tiny village in Normandy are cocking a typically Gallic snook at political correctness by refusing to remove a portrait of France’s reviled Second World War collaborationist leader Marshall Petain from a wall inside the mairie (the town hall).

On Thursday the local council of Gonneville-sur-Mer upped the stakes in a three-week war of words with the authorities and anti-racist groups, when it released a communique formally rejecting a demand from the pr̩fet Рthe senior representative of the state Рto take down the picture of Philipe Petain.

“You cannot make history disappear just by drawing a veil over it,” the council said in its statement. “We, the local authority, also believe we have a duty to preserve memory.” More...

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