2023-04-21 14:31:17
After the boos against Emmanuel Macron in the Bas-Rhin, and the alleged “anti-casseroles” decree in the Hérault, Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigates, this Friday, a decision of the Indre prefecture prohibiting demonstrations in several towns in the department, during a visit by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. A statement immediately challenged by the person concerned… While the decrees, published on the prefecture’s website, clearly indicate bans on demonstrations.
What do the decrees quoted by Mélenchon say?
“The prefect of Indre prohibits all demonstrations” for the arrival of Elisabeth Borne, indicates Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, on Twitter, denouncing an illegal suspension of constitutional freedoms. Posted this Friday, orders issued by the Indre prefecture effectively ban demonstrations in several areas of Buzançais, Châteauroux and Valençay this Friday.
In the text, the prefecture justifies this decision by the “increasing violence against both property and people” in the movement protesting the pension reform. She suspects “protesters from other departments” of wanting to integrate possible gatherings “difficult” to control “given the number of streets and alleys”.
Gatherings and demonstrations were therefore banned on entire perimeters and entire streets on Friday, in the midst of a visit by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who came to announce investments in communities to speed up the process of obtaining titles. identify. On the ground, photographs already showed, this Friday morning, demonstrators blocked by the police in the city of Buzançais.
How does the Prime Minister respond?
For Elisabeth Borne, gatherings are not really prohibited for her visit. “There is no ban on demonstrations. There are people who demonstrate, I think that once again Mr. Mélenchon is in the caricature, the prefect issued an order to prohibit driving in a street in Châteauroux, I do not think this is a questioning constitutional freedoms in our country,” she told media at midday.
What is the context of these decrees?
These decrees come after several days of tense visits from the government, which wants to move forward on other subjects after the promulgation of the pension reform, still hotly contested on the ground. This Wednesday, a hundred demonstrators booed President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Bas-Rhin, pans in hand.
The discontent was also felt this Thursday, in Hérault, when demonstrators gathered in Ganges, in the city center, without crossing the president: the procession was kept at a distance by the police. . A decree, strongly criticized by the opposition, also prohibited the use of “portable sound devices”, and was interpreted as a ban on the use of saucepans, which have become a symbol of protest.
#demonstrations #banned #visit #Borne #Indre #Mélenchon