2023-05-12 16:52:36
The Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, has issued orders prohibiting five gatherings of organizations classified on the far right and scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in the capital, following an instruction from the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. Among the five prohibited gatherings are a symposium and a demonstration organized by Action Française. A sixth gathering, of “yellow vests”, was also banned by the prefect.
The demonstration on Saturday May 6 in the streets of Paris by a May 9 Committee made up of ultra-right activists, most of them with their faces hidden and wearing Celtic crosses, sparked a lively controversy. Three days after the mobilization, which Laurent Nuñez had declared that it took place each year without disturbing public order, the Minister of the Interior issued a circular, entitled “banning of demonstrations and gatherings of the ultra-right”. In this instruction dated Wednesday, Mr. Darmanin asks the prefects “to take the necessary measures without delay to prevent such gatherings and demonstrations from happening again”.
“Particularly tense context”
In a press release, the police headquarters justifies these six bans by referring to the “Current particularly tense protest context following the controversy sparked by the demonstration organized on May 6”. She hears “preventing the risk of public order disturbances” and D’“calls for violence against groups of people”and prevent the dissemination of slogans or remarks “of a nature to call into question national cohesion or the principles enshrined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and by the republican tradition”.
Among the prohibited demonstrations, those of Action française and the associations Les Nationalistes and Penser la France aimed to honor the memory of Joan of Arc on May 14.
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