In Paris, justice validates the ban on an anti -fascist demonstration, but authorizes that of a neofascist group

The Paris Administrative Court confirmed, Friday, May 9, the ban on a “Antifascist and anti -racist demonstration”, As requested by the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez. It was scheduled for Saturday in the capital and the Emergency Palestine collective, in particular, was to participate.

A court judge of the court, on the other hand, suspended the prohibition of a demonstration on the appeal of the May 9 Committee, a neofascist group of the ultra -right. He also suspended that of a rally planned, on the same day, place du Pantheon, at the call of the Union Solidaires, which has the watchword of order “Denounce the demonstration of the committee of May 9”.

According to a statement from the administrative court, the judge in summary proceedings said that the prohibition of the demonstration “Antifascist and anti -racist” was not “Not obviously illegal”.

He notably argued that this counter-demonstration was planned for the same course as the demonstration organized by the committee of May 9 and “Would have led to mixing the participants with each of these manifestations whose ideological antagonisms are strong”. The judge also “Given the fact that members of the organizations who supported the demonstration had committed acts of violence in the past”.

The same judge, on the other hand, considered that the prohibition of the two other demonstrations – under the terms of orders published Wednesday by the Paris police headquarters – “A manifestly illegal damage to freedom of demonstration”.

A static gathering with an authorized pantheon

Concerning the demonstration of the committee of May 9, the judge noted that “The same event organized last year had not given rise to any prosecution of demonstrators due to an illicit concealment of their faces or constituent words of appeal to hatred or discrimination.”

The May 9 Committee Manifesto every year for the anniversary of the death of an far -right activist, Sébastien Deyzieu, accidentally died in 1994. This young activist of the French work, Pétainist and Anti -Semitic group, fell from a roof on May 7, 1994 during a prosecution with the police during a convened demonstration “Against American imperialism” prohibited by the prefecture.

The administrative judge considered that the risks of clashes with counter-demonstrators were not “Not established” insofar as the static gathering, called “Antifascist village” took place 1.2 km from the course, Place du Pantheon. Laurent Nuñez, who evoked the risks of public disorders, did not justify according to the administrative court that the organizers of this static rally have been involved in the past in acts of violence.

In 2024, already, several hundred members of the Groupuscule Committee of May 9, including nationalist songs, provocations and Nazi tattoos had shocked in 2023, had been able to parade with an impunity during a demonstration authorized by the administrative court.