Prohibition decrees were published Wednesday May 7 concerning two demonstrations planned in Paris on Saturday, one at the call of the committee of May 9, a neofascist group of the ultra -right, and the other baptized “anti -fascist and anti -racism demonstration”.
The Police Prefecture (PP) had warned on Monday that the prefect, Laurent Nuñez, had hired a “Contradictory procedure” To ban the two antagonistic demonstrations, due to the risk of public disorders that their organization could generate “Same day” and on a “Part of common route”.
A third decree was made by the prefect of police to prohibit a rally, on the same day, place du Pantheon, at the call of the Union Solidaires, with the watchword of order “Denounce the demonstration of the committee of May 9”. In these orders, Mr. Nuñez highlights “The current liveliness of antagonisms” and the “Risk of violence on public roads”.
“Current climate of tensions”
He recalls that during the “Recent demonstration Place de la République after the murder of a faithful in the Mosque de la Grand-Combe, comments calling for the creation of” popular self-defense brigades “had been the subject of a referral to justice by the Minister of the Interior”. “Such remarks”he adds, “Translate an appeal to violence and feed the current climate of tensions between antagonistic activists”.
The prefect of police also listed the events which require a mobilization of the police that day, such as the concert of DJ Snake at the Stade de France, followed by a party at the Arena Bercy, as well as the match of Ligue 2 Paris FC-Ajaccio in a context of accession to the Ligue 1 of the Parisian club.
The Committee of May 9 shows every year for the anniversary of the accidental death in 1994 of Sébastien Deyzieu, activist of the French work, Pétainist and Antisemite group. The young man had taken refuge on the roof of a Paris building to escape the police before making a fatal fall.