The party was first alerted to the vandalised posters on Saturday. Candidates with non-traditional Luxembourgish names were targeted with racist insults saying they do not belong in the municipality.
Fokus has since released a statement to “strongly condemn” this type of behaviour and announce that leader Frank Engel will file a police complaint.
The statement condemned racism, noting that Fokus advocates for an “open and fair society” in which “everyone has a right to find their equal place next to one another.”
Engel wrote on Facebook: “I want to say to all the racists and xenophobes: you are the worst. Sanem, like the other large municipalities in the country, is the home of many people whose families have not been Luxembourgers for hundreds of years. The cities in the south were built by immigrants.
Fokus - and all other democratic Luxembourgish parties - are happy and proud that so many people with a history of migration are getting involved politically in these local elections. They belong to us, and we commit together with them. Those who do not belong in our communities are anonymous writers of inhumane messages. I condemn this blind xenophobia in the strongest terms!”
The incident followed an ugly act of vandalism earlier this week in Echternach, where a dead cat was placed on a Green Party electoral poster.
Municipal elections will be held on Sunday 11 June.
