“Who is going to die in Ukraine ?”: why these posters targeting several MPs are controversial ?

Les affiches placardées qui font polémique. Capture X @VSpillebout

Des députés qui avaient validé le soutien français à l’Ukraine ont été visés par des affiches placardées par des jeunes communistes lillois. Plusieurs élus s’insurgent.

Renaissance MP Violette Spillebout denounced on Sunday a poster campaign by the Lille section of young communists against support for the security agreement between Paris and kyiv, because this campaign & quot;calls for hatred" according to her.

"I denounce targeting and incitement to hatred"

"Who is going to die in Ukraine ?" question these posters relayed on X by Ms. Spillebout. Above, the faces of political figures who have given their support to the French aid strategy for Ukraine. "I denounce the targeting and incitement to hatred of the posters of the Young Communists of the North", the MP indicated on X.

Violette Spillebout told AFP that she had an exchange with the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel and that she did not intend to file a complaint for the moment. "I confirm all my support for the commitments made by the President of the Republic for the defense of Ukraine and Ukrainians", Ms. Spillebout once again affirmed on X.

The communist response

These posters, put up on Saturday in Lille, target "the elected officials who have engaged France in a warlike escalation", explained to AFP Noam Peter, federal secretary of the young communists of the North, pointing out in particular Raphael Glucksmann (Place publique), Eric Ciotti (LR) and Victor Catteau (RN).

We wanted "to highlight that those who decide on war are not those who wage it. This is not a hate campaign, it is a shock campaign, he said.

The French Communist Party condemned this poster campaign, calling it unacceptable and insulting, reacted to AFP Igor Zamichiei, coordinator of the national executive committee of the PCF. "This is not our way of doing things politics", he insisted.