The Drome prefecture prohibits any demonstration in Valence, Romans-sur-Isère, Bourg-de-Péage and Crépol on Saturday November 30, 2024.The anniversary of the death of young Thomas PEROTTO as well as the recent death of Nicolas DUMAS have exacerbated and revived tensions between groups of opposing ideologies. wrote the prefect of Drôme in a press release this Monday morning. He continues: “This recovery is the subject for several weeks numerous leaflets, letters and public declarations leading to fears of significant unrest and ideological clashes in Romans-sur-Isère, Bourg-de-Péage, Crépol and Valence on November 30.
Guarantee “public order”
The prefect of Drôme must both ensure respect “the exercise of the right to demonstrate” but also guarantee “public order”. He therefore takes the measures which he considers proportionate to “prevent possible disturbances on public roads“.
It is therefore much more than the two Romanesque demonstrations which are banned this Saturday. Any gathering “in connection with the commemoration of the death of Thomas PEROTTO or the recent death of Nicolas DUMAS, as well as those in reaction to these gatherings on the grounds of the fight against racism, hatred, francocide, insecurity or even immigration, are prohibited from Saturday November 30, 2024 – 8:00 a.m. to Sunday December 1 – 8:00 p.m. in Valence, Romans-sur-Isère, Bourg-de-Péage and Crépol.” Likewise, the demonstrations declared by the collective “Justice for ours”, the collective for Novels and the ASTI Novels, as well as by the CNT, on November 30 in Romans sur Isère from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. are prohibited, specifies the prefectural decree dated this Monday, November 25.
What police reinforcements?
In a letter dated November 22, the mayor of Romans-sur-Isère Marie-Hélène Thoraval asked the prefect for this ban order “of all demonstrations on Roman territory on November 30”. The chosen one feared a “important mobilization going well beyond the framework of the city of Romans”. Marie-Hélène Thoraval said this Monday that she was satisfied to have been heard, but she now fears that certain small groups will not respect this ban and will still travel to Romans. The various right-wing elected official therefore wishes to obtain reinforcements from mobile forces “in order to deal upstream with any risk of non-compliance with this ban.” Because according to her, “the numbers of the Romans police station and the municipal police alone will not be enough if some people wish to defy the prefectural ban.”
