2023-05-09 16:06:01
Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday May 9 that he had asked the prefects to ban all ultra-right demonstrations in the future, after the controversy sparked by that of the May 9 Committee on Saturday in Paris, which had not been prohibited.
Before the deputies, the Minister of the Interior judged, like Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne before him, “unacceptable” this demonstration of nearly 600 ultra-right activists, the majority of whom had their faces concealed, who wore Celtic crosses. And to declare, in response to a question from the Ecologist deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, Francesca Pasquini:
“I have instructed the prefect of police that any ultra-right, far-right activist, any association or collective, in Paris or on national territory, which will file demonstrations in the sense that you have described, the prefects will take prohibition orders and we will let the courts judge whether the case law will indeed allow these demonstrations to be held. »
Questioned on BFM-TV, Monday May 8, the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, assumed for not having banned the manifestation of the ultra-right in the capital on Saturday. The senior official maintained that this would have required that he “demonstrates” not only the existence of risks of disturbing public order, but also “than with the police forces whose [il] dispose, [il] won’t be[t] unable to contain this violence and outbursts”.
An argument taken up before the deputies by Gérald Darmanin, who deplored a decision to suspend the ban taken by the Paris administrative court for a previous ultra-right demonstration at the beginning of the year. The instruction passed to the prefect and announced by the Minister of the Interior should again cause a rise in declarations of demonstrations before the courts.
The justifications of Laurent Nuñez
According to the authorities, nearly 600 activists of the May 9 Committee demonstrated in the 6e arrondissement of Paris to celebrate the 29e anniversary of the accidental death of Sébastien Deyzieu, a far-right activist, in 1994.
These demonstrators, dressed in black and often masked, displayed black flags marked with the Celtic cross and chanted “Europe, youth, revolution”the slogan of the GUD (Group of Defense Union), noted Agence France-Presse.
Nuñez argued that at a previous far-right rally in February, commemorating the violently suppressed February 6, 1934 nationalist protests, he issued a banning order, which was overturned in court . “It was considered that I did not sufficiently demonstrate that there was a risk of disturbing public order (…) And (…) with the police forces at my disposal [je n’étais pas] able to contain it”recalled the senior official.
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