The mayor of Paris has hit back at the vandals who attacked one of the city's rainbow crossings, announcing that the colourful public artwork - commissioned for Pride, Marche des Fiertés - would now be made permanent.
The popular four-way crossing was vandalised twice in one week, with phrases including “LGBT get out of France” and “LGBT dictatorship” written in white paint.
"Paris is a city of refuge that embraces Republican values of freedom, equality and fraternity," the city's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, tweeted on Wednesday.
She continued: "In order for these values to be recorded forever, the rainbow pedestrian crossings created for Gay Pride will be made permanent!"
Hidalgo added that the vandalism "wouldn't go unpunished".
Following of a Pride installation in Warsaw last month, politicians installed a permanent artwork made entirely out of light and mist.
It was by Lord Clover Moore that Sydney will be getting a permanent rainbow crossing
