2023-07-08 11:00:38
Several “citizen marches” imprinted with “mourning and anger” against police violence are announced on Saturday in several cities, in the absence of that planned in memory of Adama Traoré in Val-d’Oise, prohibited in a context of tensions after the nights of riots.
Seven years after the death of Adama Traoré, a young black man who died shortly after his arrest by the gendarmes in July 2016, a commemorative march was planned for Saturday afternoon in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise. But the prefect of Val-d’Oise banned it on Thursday and his decision was confirmed Friday evening by administrative justice, seized urgently by Adama’s older sister, Assa Traoré.
A gathering in Paris banned
Assa Traoré had however indicated that she would be present “Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Place de la République” to shout “to the whole world that our dead have the right to exist, even in death”. However, she did not directly call on her supporters to join her, which could have been likened to the organization of a wild and therefore illegal demonstration. This gathering in Paris will however be banned, the police headquarters announced on Saturday.
Thirty other demonstrations against police violence have been listed in France in Marseille, Nantes, Angoulême… Some marches will begin in the morning as in Saint-Nazaire or Strasbourg.
Prohibited demonstrations in Lille, a new route in Strasbourg
In Lille, two demonstrations which were to be held on Saturday and Sunday were banned by the Nord prefecture. The prefect justified his decision in a press release, considering that these marches were “intended to cause disturbances to public order” and were “likely to incite violent action against the police”.
In Strasbourg, the demonstration will take place this Saturday but will follow a new route. The citizen’s march organized at the call of several left-wing organizations has revised its route following a prefectural decree prohibiting the Big Island, i.e. the historic center, from any demonstration, according to The Latest News from Alsace.
Nearly a hundred associations, unions and political parties classified on the left, including LFI, EELV, CGT and Solidaires, called for these “citizen marches”, to express “mourning and anger” and denounce policies deemed “discriminatory against working-class neighborhoods.
Nahel’s death and the urban violence that followed cast a harsh light on the ills of French society, from the difficulties of working-class neighborhoods to the stormy relations between young people and the police. Since June 27, more than 3,700 people have been taken into custody in connection with the riots, including some 1,160 minors, according to figures from the Interior Ministry.
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