Invoking “high risk of disturbances to public order”the Paris Police Prefecture preventively banned, Thursday April 18, a demonstration against racism and Islamophobia planned for Sunday in the capital. “The failure to take into account the risks of excesses by the organizers and the insufficient security service raise fears of a strong risk of disturbances to public order”the police headquarters told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“This march which denounces in particular in its appeal “police crimes” against young people is conducive to attracting components deliberately seeking clashes with the police, creating a real risk of disturbances to public order”specifies the prefecture in a decree.
The National Observatory of Police Practices and Violence and the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) are among the organizers of this march which was to take place between Barbès and République, followed by a concert. The organizing collective has filed an appeal for interim relief, said one of its representatives, Amal Bentounsi.
“We therefore arrive at this situation through a formidable Kafkaesque operation: organizing a demonstration to denounce racism, Islamophobia and for the protection of all children becomes a violent provocation in the eyes of the French state and is prohibited from doing so. title “reacted the collective https://twitter.com/Marche_21Avril/status/1780984190147686687. The order states, “Moreover, that this march, also wishing to focus attention on the children of Gaza, is of a nature, given the current tensions in the Middle East (…) to carry anti-Semitic slogans within it”.
The prefecture also mentions a context of “police mobilization at other demonstrations and sporting events”like a flea market on Place de la République all day long or for the PSG-Olympique Lyonnais football match in the evening.
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