2023-07-15 10:27:24
About fifty associations, unions and left-wing parties, including La France insoumise, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and the CGT denounced, on Saturday July 15, the ban by the Paris police headquarters on a demonstration against the police violence, which is to take place in the afternoon on Place de la République, in the center of the capital.
Associations, unions, collectives and political parties are co-signatories of a press release, released in the morning. They believe that this new ban on demonstrations is “an obvious sign of authoritarianism”. “We strongly denounce this attempt to muzzle political expression in working-class neighborhoods and the repression of social and environmental movements. The organizations demand that this march can be held”, they claimed. The prohibition order issued by the prefect, Laurent Nuñez, was the subject of an emergency appeal rejected on Saturday morning by the administrative court of Paris.
“A general instruction therefore illegal”
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Wednesday the banning of this gathering, as well as any other “demonstration directly linked to the riots”until July 15 inclusive.
During the hearing before the administrative court on Saturday, the applicants’ lawyer, Lucie Simon, denounced “a general instruction and therefore illegal” prohibition of demonstrations. “If we want to curb anger, we must channel its democratic expression”she pleaded on behalf of the organizers.
For the representative of the police headquarters at the hearing, the problem “is not the object of the demonstration but the possibility that violent individuals” be present. And this in a context of “low availability of law enforcement” after the riots and the mobilization of an important security device Thursday and Friday evening for July 14th.
The police headquarters had already banned last week a previous demonstration in Paris aimed at honoring the memory of Adama Traoré, who died shortly after his arrest by gendarmes in July 2016. Despite this prefectural measure, around 2,000 people were assembled on July 8.
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