Flamboyant march of ultra -right scheduled for Saturday in Paris prohibited by prefect of police

The march organized by the Paris Ferété association was to start Saturday at 6 p.m., on a partly concomitant time slot of a demonstration planned by the Kurdish community in tribute to three activists killed in 2013 in Paris.

MO12345LEMONDE With AFP

The Paris police prefecture announced, Thursday, January 5, the prohibition, on the investigation of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, of a torchlight planned on Saturday by the ultra -right movement, due to “Risks of disorders to public order”.

In a Communicated , The Police Prefecture (PP) explained that “in the current context, due to the strong risk of troubles to order public, and moreover of the important mobilization of the police that day on several events, the security of the participants in the march and the residents could not be fully assured “. A ban has been notified to the organizers, added the pp.

concomitant demonstrations

The march organized by the Paris Fieré association, in tribute to Sainte Geneviève, boss of Paris, was to start Saturday at 6 p.m., on a partially coinciding time slot with a demonstration planned by the Kurdish community in tribute to three activists Killed in 2013 in Paris, we explained from a police source.

of the same source, the emphasis is also placed on the context of surveillance of the ultra-right, with incidents occurring during the semi-final of the World Cup of football which had opposed France in Morocco. Incidents had already occurred during the last edition of the Marche de Paris Pride, January 15, 2022.

Several processions of “yellow vests” are also announced on Saturday in the streets of the capital, while the government must present on January 10 its pension reform which meets a lively opposition from the workers’ unions and the left.

/Media reports cited above.