2023-09-23 09:08:00
At the call of several left-wing organizations and political groups, demonstrations are expected to take place in several French cities.
By HR with AFP 30,000 people could demonstrate against police violence. © VALENTIN FAIVRE / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP Published on 09/23/2023 at 9:08 a.m.
Nearly 30,000 people are expected across France this Saturday September 23 to demonstrate against “systemic racism, police violence and for public freedoms”. They will thus respond to the call of several left-wing and far-left political organizations and groups. The movement will be under close surveillance by the police.
According to a territorial intelligence note, 24,000 to 30,000 participants, for 116 unit marches throughout the territory, are expected during this event launched at the initiative of around a hundred trade union, political and other collectives from working-class neighborhoods. .
Risks of disturbances to public order are mentioned in Gap (Hautes-Alpes), Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Lille (North), Dijon (Côte-d’Or), Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (Meurthe- et-Moselle), Angers (Maine-et-Loire), Caen (Calvados), Angoulême (Charente), Tulle (Corrèze), Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), Grenoble (Isère), Bordeaux (Gironde), Saint-Étienne ( Loire), Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and Villeurbanne (Rhône).
1,000 police officers mobilized in Paris
Territorial intelligence also mentions risks of unrest in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), where an anti-drug rally near the unitary march is organized by the ultra-right. Clashes are thus to be feared with the ultra-left, specifies the note.
The Ministry of the Interior mobilized for this day – also marked by the presence of Pope Francis in Marseille, after a three-day state visit by King Charles III and his wife Camilla – between 130 and 135 mobile force units , or a total of 30,000 police officers and gendarmes.
In Paris, “a little more than 1,000 police officers will be mobilized,” said the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, Saturday morning on France Info.
Gérald Darmanin sent a letter of support to the police and gendarmes on Friday and sent a telegram to the prefects, of which AFP had a copy, calling on them to “exercise particular vigilance regarding these gatherings”, to issue an order of ban if necessary and to report messages “carrying insulting and outrageous slogans against the institutions of the Republic, the police and the gendarmerie likely to fall within the scope of the law”.
On Friday, the Vienne prefecture seized the Poitiers prosecutor for “public insult” for a poster announcing a demonstration against police violence which associated a swastika with the logo of the national police.
In Paris, 3,000 to 6,000 people are expected, including 200 to 400 at risk, according to a police source, for a march which will leave at 2:30 p.m. from the Gare du Nord, in the northeast of the capital. The Techno Parade will also parade through the streets of the capital, between Denfert-Rochereau, left bank, and the Place de la Nation. In 2022, there were 250,000 who celebrated to the sound of electronic music, according to the organizers.
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