Overview
- Anti-police and anti-RN messages were briefly projected on the Musée des Beaux-Arts/Palais Saint-Pierre on December 6 during Lyon’s Fête des Lumières.
- The Lyon branch of Les Soulèvements de la Terre claimed responsibility on social media, framing the action as opposition to an alleged police state and the far right.
- The prefecture referred the case to the judiciary under article 40, triggering a judicial investigation, and the Interior Minister condemned the messages as hateful.
- Investigators are reviewing surveillance footage to identify the perpetrators and determine the origin of the projections, with no arrests reported.
- Police unions and local officials denounced the slogans as defamatory as the festival proceeds with hundreds of police, gendarmes and security personnel for an event drawing up to two million visitors.