Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, spokesman for right to housing, arrested during a demonstration

Located in custody for “rebellion”, the associative activist was released in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Political figures have supported him.

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Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, spokesman for the association right to housing (DAL), was arrested near the Ministry of Housing, Boulevard Saint-Germain (Paris 7 e ), Tuesday April 12 in the afternoon, and placed in custody for “rebellion”, after “a preliminary altercation on the device”, according to the Paris police prefecture. It was released soon after midnight.

Members of the Association, present at the scene during the arrest, testified “the violence of the intervention of the police, who used tear gas against protesters and families present Before apprehending Mr. Eyraud, 67, and to press him brutally on the ground “. The latter participated in a demonstration declared in prefecture to request the relocation of 220 families “forgotten from the right to the opposable housing”.

📢🛑 Muscular interpellation of Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, spokesman of DAL and violent repression against families “… https://t.co/mx4c86js4r “/p>- federationdal (@droit housing)

The relations between the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, and the Dal have recently degraded on occasion, in particular, of the installation, by the association, of a camp, Place de la Bastille ( Paris 11 e ), where the 220 families who should, according to the law, be relied on, to be relocated by the State. This static manifestation, declared, initially, on February 28, was prohibited by the police prefect. A contested decision, successfully by the DAL, before the Paris Administrative Court, which finally authorized this event from 5 March, for eight days, renewable.

“Range”

On the occasion of the end of the winter break of the rental evictions, the DAL had again solicited the authorization to demonstrate Saturday, March 26, place of the stock market (2 e ) and had been opposed by Mr. Lallement, contested again, again, since the event was finally authorized by an order of the Administrative Court of 26 March.

“I do not understand this fierceness, then confided to the world Mr. Eyraud. Why prohibit us from manifesting, while two far-right parades are allowed on the same day, those of the patriots, Florian Philippot, and the Military Tribune [Posted in Current Values, end of April 2021] … We respect the public space, we do not commit violence, and we are used to chatting with the police. “Asked on this subject, the prefecture invoked then Problems “route crossing shopping and tourist neighborhoods”.

Since, DAL activists, allies to those of Attac, had, on April 3, burst into the luxury store The Samaritan, owned by the LVMH group of Bernard Arnault, to denounce the “digging of inequalities”.

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