2023-05-14 13:22:15
The royalist and nationalist movement Action française indeed organized its demonstration this Sunday to celebrate Joan of Arc, justice having suspended Saturday evening the prohibition pronounced by the police headquarters of Paris. The Paris administrative court stressed in its decision that the demonstration “does not constitute an incitement to cause disturbances to public order, even taking into account the context of current social tensions” and that it has been “organized for several decades “.
The court, however, rejected the appeal of another small group classified on the far right, “Les nationalistes” by Yvan Benedetti, who also wanted to demonstrate this Sunday, judging “sufficiently established the existence of a risk of remarks or gestures inciting any form of hatred, in particular racial hatred”.
A little earlier in the day, the same jurisdiction had given reason to the ultra-right movement which wanted to organize a conference entitled “France in danger” the same afternoon. It brought together around 350 people, including some masked and dressed in black, in the 12th arrondissement, under high police surveillance.
“Joan of Arc in Paris, down with the Republic”,
Leaving the Opera, the procession of a few hundred people headed for the Place des Pyramides, where there is a statue of the Maid of Orléans, behind her usual yellow and blue banner claiming the tradition of this meeting. . A small crowd of all ages, mainly men with military dress and gait, armbands or blue-white-red crests on their arms, chanted “Joan of Arc in Paris, down with the Republic”, “Action? French! Long live the king” and “Darmanin, come back”.
A small moment of tension briefly opposed the demonstrators to the police, deployed in large numbers after the controversy sparked by the demonstration organized by the May 9 Committee last Saturday in Paris. About 600 militants of this movement, who wanted to mark the 29th anniversary of the death of a far-right militant, Sébastien Deyzieu, exhibited black flags marked with the Celtic cross, a neo-fascist symbol. During the week, the Ministry of the Interior had asked the prefect of police to act to prevent several far-right demonstrations.
Representatives of Place d’armes, whose demonstration was banned on Saturday Place Denfert-Rochereau, joined the ceremony of homage to Joan of Arc, according to our journalist on the spot. The demonstration dispersed shortly before noon in peace.
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