“Convoys of freedom”: a hundred people arrested Saturday in Paris

The police prefecture has indicated that it “keys its device this Sunday” to prevent protesters from blocking the capital.

Le Monde with AFP

The forces of the College proceeded, Saturday in Paris, 97 arrests and 513 verbalisations of opponents of the sanitary measures participating in the baptized “convoy of freedom”, according to a comprehensive balance sheet communicated on Sunday, February 13 by The Paris Police Prefecture. In a tweet, the police prefecture added “maintain his device this Sunday” to prevent demonstrators from blocking the capital:

#manifestation | Global balance sheet in #Paris:
➡️ 97 arrests
➡️ 513 Verbalisations
The @PrefPolice maintains its di … https://t.co/3jrhurqf9c

– prefpolice (@ police prefecture)

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the police intervened, according to the prefecture, in the district of Champs-Elysées and in the Bois de Boulogne for “verbalize and disperse” the last participants in this prohibited event by the police prefect, Didier Lallement.

At the beginning of the afternoon Saturday, more than a hundred vehicles had managed to join the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, which was gradually evacuated by the law enforcement forces.

One of the figures of the movement of “yellow vests” arrested

Gathering heteroclite of opponents to President Emmanuel Macron, at the vaccinal pass and “yellow vests”, those who call “convoys of freedom” were formed on the model of mobilization that currently paralyzes Canada’s capital. , Ottawa.

Among the arrests figure Jérôme Rodrigues, one of the figures of the movement of “yellow vests”, and active support of “convoys”, as an organization of an interdered manifestation.

Some 7,500 members of the police are mobilized by the Paris police prefecture since Friday until Monday, the “convoys” having planned to win Brussels Monday.

/Media reports.